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Julian Ford passed on a link to an article by Michael J. Radwin on Buildng Data Warehouses With mySQL. The article refers to a presentation by John Ashenfelter who’s also written a book on mySQL and data warehousing which is due out in July 2004. Data warehousing using mySQL on one hand sounds counter-intuitive but [...]

Andy Todd points out a useful guide to installing Oracle Database 10g on Debian. According to the guide, "We go through, step-by-step, the process of installing Oracle 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2) Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux x86 on a Debian unstable installation as of 2004-04-01. This chapter was originally written by Damien McAullay with suggestions from [...]

I’ve been trying to get TOra 1.2.4 to connect to an Oracle Database 10g installation, with both client and server on the same Red Hat 9.0 machine. Unfortunately, although TOra starts up, as soon as I try and connect I keep coming up with the error “ORA 12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified”, [...]

All of the Oracle 10g infrastructure components are now available for download on OTN, for Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris. Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (10.1.0.2) Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4) I’ve just finished putting in the Oracle Database 10g on my Red Hat 9.0 [...]

Jon Mead just contacted me to let me know he’d successfully installed Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) on United Linux. Over to Jon; “I have successfully installed 10g AS on Linux (United Linux distribution).  Attached is a document explaining the step (you will also need the quick installation guide). My initial thoughts are: It worked [...]