Monthly Archive: August 2010

Aug 30 2010

HOWTO: Merge files under Windows

Small “howto”, because I always forget. Today I needed to merge to Linux tar files on Windows. I downloaded the two Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). After unzipping them you get two tar files called OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2 OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2 To be able to merge them and then “untar” those files, under Linux …

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Aug 25 2010

Common XQuery mistakes…applied in XML DB

Do you read FAQ…? Somehow I keep people reminding there is a FAQ URL on the XMLDB forum and even then people refuse to read those good examples… Anyway found two great posts I want to share and remember on this, my, web “notepad”. Besides the treewalker example, I tested the examples of those mentioned …

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Aug 23 2010

So what’s the “Michigan OakTable Symposium” all about…

Bit sad that I don’t have the time to post some of the cool internal tracing stuff that I have done lately and that gave me a far better insight in the inner workings of Oracle XMLDB, but there is a reason for it… As you have maybe have noticed, there is besides the day-to-day …

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Aug 03 2010

Oracle 5 Installation Steps

While browsing my old pictures, I discovered two small directories with some installation snapshots I once made, because there is almost no info left about this topic (besides in people’s heads) I left it here for “past” reference… Double click on it to go to the bigger “version” on Picassa. Related posts: HI, HI – …

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