Monthly Archives: August 2013

Real World OCaml

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Gaius

In the course of my work with OCaml I have traditionally resisted using anything other than “pure” OCaml, and the facilities of the underlying OS. So rather than OMake or OASIS I just used plain, old-fashioned Makefiles. For package management, … Continue reading →

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Strange Datetime Problem

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Gaius

While working on my unit tests, I came across a sporadic failure in inserting and selecting Datetimes to the database, so I wrote a quick test harness to see what’s going on: This fails about 3% of the time, for … Continue reading →

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OCI*ML: Make Test

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gaius

Before resuming feature implementation in OCI*ML I thought I ought to tighten up the test suite a bit, so I have started on a make test target, including some utilities for generating large test datasets, which should be useful elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (3)

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Gaius

This is the third segment of my series of posts on interesting new features in Oracle 12c. In this I will cover enhancements to RAC, DataGuard (DG) and RMAN. Application Continuity (AC) is the next logical step in Oracle’s existing … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (2)

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Gaius

Continuing from the previous post, here are some more of the new features of Oracle 12c that I am excited about. The first is transparent redaction. Like the privilege analysis feature, this is something that you could implement using 11g … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (1)

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Gaius

Back in July, I attended the Oracle Database 12c Launch event in London, and this is my rather belated writeup of some of the new features, some of which were introduced to me on the day, and others I had … Continue reading →

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