Copy Finder Path to the Clipboard
Howdy there everybody! I was a tad annoyed with my inability to select a folder in Finder and get the path copied to the clipboard… As opposed to sitting around and hoping that the dudes at 1 Infinite Loop would…
Hide or Show OSX Desktop Icons
I do A LOT of presentations and I have an absolute MESS on my desktop (…who doesn’t…). I use this command in Terminal to hide my shame: And here’s the command to show the mess again: If you don’t want…
Easy External Table Creation
I just read this in this month’s Ask Tom article in Oracle Magazine. I didn’t know you could do this with SQL*Loader and I thought I’d share. For those who don’t know what SQL*Loader is, it was a utility that…
Quick backups with ZFS Storage Appliance
I started messing around with ZFS storage with the Oracle ZFS Storage Simulator found here (). Pretty cool stuff!!! ——————————————————————————
Copy files out of ASM
Here’s little script to help copy a file out of ASM..enjoy ——————————————————————————
init Script for OEM & Ops Center
I hate starting stuff up manually…so I wrote this… Enjoy ——————————————————————————
Quick Remote Diagnostics…
Edition Based Redefinition Demo
I’m a big fan of Edition-Based Redefinition that was introduced in Oracle Database 11gR2. Edition-based redefinition enables you to upgrade the database component of an application while it is in use, thereby minimizing or eliminating down time. Here’s a little…
Quick TDE demo
Better Lockdown Script
So I was thinking about the lockdown script I wrote yesterday and noticed an attack vector. I only created the variable for RANDPWD once…so…if an attacker knew the variable they could comprise the system…in theory…but hey…it was worth rewriting…