Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I was trying to install Oracle 11g client on to a WinXP box but Symantec Antivirus wouldn’t let me because it thought it was infected with over 800 viruses.  Same file was marked clean on another box.  So, I picked several of the viruses it said was infected with and looked for any evidence of [...]

Back in December of 2007, Andrew E. Bruno wrote an excellent article on how to use the open source program Dia to design databases.  He used the resultant design to create a MySQL database but the same principles could be used to create just about any relational database from the design.  Dia is available for [...]

At work we have three generic LCD monitors mounted on a pole to view monitoring metrics for our Oracle & Sybase database servers. On a previous machine that was cannibalized for another task, we ran Microsoft Windows XP to drive the three monitors.
Last week we were given a hand me down desktop, [...]

If you’re not using Oracle’s RMAN for backup management but you have turned on archive mode for hot backups, you can create a job in Enterprise Manager (Maintenance -> Manage Current Backups).
Recently I ran into a problem with one our Enterprise Manager installs where scheduled jobs would not run. So, I wrote a very [...]

Lewis Cunningham has once again given us a gem from the world of Oracle’s relational DBMS!  This time, he has written ORA_Tweet, an API to send/receive Tweets (microblog posts) from within Oracle 11g.  Major kudos to Lewis Cunningham for writing and releasing ORA Tweet to Sourceforge.net
Call the Twitter API from within an Oracle [...]