Month: March 2012

Maybe you did get or you will get an issue with the date command in AIX. expected behavior, Linux $ TZ=NZST-12NZDT,M10.1.0/2,M3.3.0/3 date Sat Mar 17 00:14:54 NZDT 2012 $ TZ=Pacific/Auckland date Sat Mar 17 00:14:58 NZDT 2012 unexpected behavior, AIX $ TZ=Pacific/Auckland date Sat Mar 17 00:15:50 GMT+13:00 2012 $ TZ=NZST-12NZDT,M10.1.0/2,M3.3.0/3 date Fri Mar 16 […]

Sometimes you wait a feature for so long that even if it is small and common, you feel greatly happy In Toad 11.5.0.38. Greatly replace the “right-click” + “close tab”

I wrote about unix timestamp i powershell. I wrote : It is chockingly easy ! but I should have written : … it is not correct 🙁 PS> ./perl -e “print time.’`n'” 1331454753 PS> get-date -u %s 1331458358.05694 there is about 3605 seconds difference. 1 hour for Europe/Zurich and 5 seconds to type on a […]

I just read on System.Data.OracleClient Namespace that System.Data.OracleClient are deprecated. The types in System.Data.OracleClient are deprecated. The types are supported in version 4 of the .NET Framework but will be removed in a future release. Microsoft recommends that you use a third-party Oracle provider. The alternative is to use ODP (from Oracle) instead of ADO […]

I have a bit versed into powershell over the last months, I just cannot stop discovering new gems. Ex : Win32 Classes Self-explanatory examples : PS> (get-wmiobject win32_processor).currentclockspeed 3292 PS> (get-wmiobject win32_operatingsystem).version 5.1.2600 PS> (get-wmiobject win32_proxy).ProxyServer proxy.example.com PS> (get-wmiobject win32_proxy).ProxyPortNumber 8080 it goes on and on and on… the ways those things are accessible from […]

As part of my dba job, I have a few Sybase DBs around. I created the well known Oracle Scott tables to play with $ isql -U sa -P “” 1> sp_addlogin “scott”,”tiger7″ 2> go Password correctly set. Account unlocked. New login created. (return status = 0) 1> create database lsc01 2> go CREATE DATABASE: […]