As we say bye bye to 2006, I would like to thank you, my dear reader, for reading my blog and spending part of your time leaving comments and feedback.

For me, the highlights of 2006 were:

The birth of my baby Julie The blogger of the year award The visit to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

I would also […]

There was a question on OraQA about how to stop Oracle XE from starting up with your computer. When you install Oracle XE on Windows, it creates a service called “OracleServiceXE” with a startup type of “Automatic” which means that the service starts automatically when the computer boots.

One way to prevent Oracle XE from starting […]

Here is an interesting post about things you should avoid blogging about. I could not agree more with the following:

…There’s no real point to those “I can’t blog ’cause I’m too busy” posts other than giving a cop-out for not keeping up with your blog. People come to your blog to read your […]

Johan Louwers published an Oracle Applications passwords decryption vulnerability that allows a malicious user to expose the passwords of any Oracle Applications user. In Oracle E-Business Suite, usernames and their encrypted passwords are stored in the table fnd_user:

SQL> desc fnd_user; Name […]

Yesterday, I received the following email:

Hi, We’d bought oracle 10g with RH Enterprise Linux in 2005. After year of a smooth operation we’re having following problems with Oracle 10g. - system shutdowns once a day automatically - listener could not find available handler for requested type of server […]

I’m having too much fun with PikiPimp this Sunday evening

NULL values in a database Should it be allowed to have NULL values in a database? (tags: null database) […]

During the next few months I will be involved in migrating our current E-Commerce system to a new architecture, namely service-oriented architecture, or SOA for short. So, in order to learn SOA and its components, I downloaded and installed Oracle JDeveloper and the Oracle SOA suite on my personal computer.

I installed the SOADEMO schema and […]

With the increase in the number of blogs aggregated by OraNA, the idea of categorizing blogs into smaller groups, each with its own theme and its own feed may be a good idea (for me, I still want to keep track of everything).

For example, there are aggregators that aggregate blogs about JDeveloper and others that […]