Five years ago I wrote xhost+ is a huge security hole, I turned out red this morning when my neighbour sent me a smiley via X. Do I really want everyone to have full access to my screen? No, I don’t. And I don’t do xhost+. So why did it happen to me ??? I […]
Month: May 2012
[Hello World] run c# from powershell
How to run csharp code from command line with powershell. One line PS> add-type ‘public class c{public const string s=”hello world”;}’;[c]::s hello world You can also execute visual basic directly from powershell. PS> Add-Type -language visualbasic ‘public class v >> public const s as string = “Hello World” >> end class’ >> PS> [v]::s Hello […]
[Windows] Email of current user
I hate having to type my email address, so I created a long one-liner to do the trick of getting my email from Exchange and copying it in my clipboard powershell -noprofile -command “$o=New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher; $o.SearchRoot=New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry;$o.Filter=’samaccountname=’+$ENV:USERNAME;write-host ($o.FindOne().Properties.mail)” | clip save this as “C:\WINDOWS\E.BAT” Then, when you have to enter your email in a form […]
My first .NET gui in Powershell
I managed to interface Oracle and a GUI via powershell. First, load the Oracle and the .NET assemblies [void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile(“C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\ODP.NET\bin\2.x\Oracle.DataAccess.dll”) [void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Drawing”) [void] [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Windows.Forms”) Now, let’s retrieve EMP in a powershell array. I hope one of my reader will advise me on a better way 🙂 $connection=New-Object Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection(“Data Source=DB01; User Id=scott; password=tiger”) $connection.open() $command=new-object Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleCommand(“select […]
EURO symbol, sqlplus, cmd.exe and various issues
One customer reported a not-correctly displayed Euro Symbol (€) in the database from sqlplus (msdos). Why? First, the character set did not support it. select * from v$nls_parameters where PARAMETER like ‘%CHARACTERSET%’; PARAMETER VALUE —————————— ————— NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16 If you are still using WE8ISO8859P1, consider migrating to WE8MSWIN1252 using csalter sqlplus “/ as […]
Create helloworld.exe file in powershell
PS> Add-Type -outputtype consoleapplication -outputassembly helloworld.exe ‘public class helloworld{public static void Main(){System.Console.WriteLine(“hello world”);}}’ PS> .\helloworld.exe hello world Probably my first .exe this century 🙂
Toad 11.5 is out
The latest Toad is now in production, 11.5, get it from http://toadfororacle.com. If you have an old license key, 9.6 or older, it may complain at installation time, just ignore. It will be fine at run time. Enhanced TAB browsing experience, nicer and more visible colors for your connection (production=red…), read-only connections. Currently it still […]