Catherine: pyOraGeek

I have a complaint. After seven years of Oracle experience, ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified ought to be ...

I just posted a little script at http://sqlwrappy.sourceforge.net/resetPwd.py for password changing; a full description is at http://sqlwra...

I hope that this study receives all the attention it deserves. "Women exposed to bogus scientific theories linking their gender to poor...

Among the great things I learned at Ohio LinuxFest came from Jeff Waugh's talk . I bet you've seen that LAMP acronym around, and w...

Thank God, the babysitter, and a wonderful spouse, I did get to go to Ohio LinuxFest after all. Hooray! With one talk each on MySQL and Po...

I got an interesting question from Guido d'Amico... he wants to use Python scripts to access Oracle databases from machines with no Orac...

Ohio LinuxFest is coming Sep. 30! I absolutely loved it last year . It looks like I won't be able to make this year... *weeps bitter t...

Let me say, first off, that I deeply appreciate everything Steven Feuerstein does for the Oracle community. But the marketing of Qnxo has j...

I have a new laptop from my boss! A Dell XPS M1710; it feels a bit like an SUV of laptops... it weighs more than I do, comes with an on-boa...

I've seen so many blogging tools over the past year or so... many of them seem like interesting projects that have generated lots of exc...

The oracle EXP utility generates a dumpfile which, although technically binary, actually contains lots of readable ASCII. Sometime I need t...

Xubuntu is a variant of Ubuntu that uses the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, making it a good choice for low-powered systems. Or so t...

Cleanup of obsolete material continues. I'm holding a boxed set of Oracle 7.3.4 Server software. It's still shrink-wrapped . Can I ...

Following a recent run of absurdly good luck at user-group drawings, I must face the fact that my cubicle will not tolerate my current inven...

That's my new term for the performance-clogging stuff that big-enterprise IT departments automatically install to user desktops via the ...

In the past few months, I've written sqlWrap.py , a database connection convenience wrapper, and oraDifference.py (which depends on sql...

I told you that Luca Canali's sqlpython is wonderfully easy to customize. I probably should have also told you that it's dangerous...

I think I've found my ideal solution for version control. I used bzr for a few weeks, and appreciated its distributed nature - no sing...

Here's a cheer to Przemek Piotrowski for his recent OTN article, Build a Rapid Web Development Environment for Python Server Pages and ...

Luca Canali has written SQLpython , a lovely new SQL command-line tool for Oracle. Right now, the most popular SQL command-line tools are SQ...