Gee, a lot of Oracle news lately. Oracle has released XE (Express Edition) as a production release. That’s right. No more beta. Still free. Still here.
Feb 262006
Feb 242006
Oracle SQL Developer evolves fast: Early Adopter release 5 is there.
Feb 212006
If you’ve just installed Oracle 10g XE and want to use that database with Oracle JDeveloper 10g release 3, you might run into a “t2cGetCharSet” error when defining an OCI8 (thick) connection. Copy “lib/ojdbc14.jar” from the XE jdbc-directory to the jdbc/lib directory of JDeveloper. The jar from XE is newer, and seems to solve the problem. You need to restart JDeveloper for the new driver to be recognized/active.
Update: read all about Oracle and JDBC here.
Feb 192006
Things go fast now: there’s a (Early Adopter) release 4.1 of Oracle SQL Developer. Get it, before it’s gone, here.
This new version actually has SQL Worksheet working and connecting/disconnecting to an OCI8 connection has been fixed as well (you can reconnect, in version 4.0 you could not).
Feb 162006
What do you write when the father of one of your best friends, her husbands father-in-law, her mothers husband (barely escaped from this horrible disease herself), and her sisters father, her nephews grandfather, is diagnosed with a very progressed form of cancer? In his liver and his bowels. What do you write when it fills you with sadness and anger, frustration and despair? Thoughts of how unfair life is fill my mind. I can’t help it, but the tears keep coming. It reminds me of how I felt and still feel when I lost one of my parents, my mother. Somebody dear to me is going to lose her dad very soon. There are no words that can describe that.
From this humble position I wish her and her relatives all the strength that they need. They will need a lot of it.
Feb 152006
And…there’s a new (EA) release too. Early Adopter release 4 marks the name change from Raptor to SQL Developer. I think it sounds a bit duller than Raptor, but also more mature. Nonetheless, SQL Developer is not dull.
As you can read in the (pricing) FAQ, SQL Developer will remain free and its functionality will be integrated into JDeveloper release 10.1.3+ (as in greater than 10.1.3).
Feb 152006
Although Shay works for Oracle, so he is a little biased, but you’ve got to admit: he’s got a point. A strong point. The Matisse-hype in the new Netbeans turns out to become a vendor-lockin(g) mechanism. You cannot modify the generated Matisse code other than visually in Netbeans. Not with another IDE or text-editor. Changes will be ignored and/or overwritten. Not something you would expect after all the drumrolls.
Read the whole review Shay’s referring to.
Feb 142006
Can somebody please explain to me what Oracle Developer Suite 10g and GameUtil (a RadeOn videocard tweaker) have in common, because I am lost. As long as I have gameutil running (check via Taskmanager), I can not start any tool from the Developer Suite (only sqlplus commandline). When I kill GameUtil, everything works like a charm. Huh?! Starting GameUtil again, and the tools don’t start anymore.
my.state := puzzled;
Feb 122006
Recently Oracle renamed their HTMLDB product/framework to Application Express. When you install Oracle Express Edition, and you navigate to the management-page, you will see in the bottom-right corner that it’s build with….Application Express. Nice to see they’re eating their own dogfood.
Feb 112006
Wow! Almost production ready! Oracle released beta 3 (or pre-production) of the Express Edition of 10g for Windows. It supports more languages than beta 2 because it’s a Universal Release.
You have to uninstall the previous beta, which will also delete your database, so export your data first. Get the 215MByte download here.