Category Archives: OCIML

2014

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Gaius

So, how was 2014 for me, in tech at least? Pretty good. It has been quite an interesting experience adapting to an all-proprietary tech stack (database, language, IDE, job scheduler) but I feel I am finally getting a grip on … 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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August

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Gaius

As of today I am on gardening leave, and I intend to spend the time productively (after taking a long-planned and well-deserved holiday next week!). In no particular order: Update this blog more regularly, I have some posts that I … Continue reading →

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Quick histograms

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Gaius

Having come back to actively working on OCI*ML recently, it’s time I cracked on with some more features (I have been promising LOBs for a long time, sorry to anyone who’s still waiting). Just to get warmed up, inspired by … Continue reading →

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OCaml 4 beta

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Gaius

OCaml 4 beta 2 has been released, and so I quickly tested OCI*ML with it. Only a couple of minor tweaks were necessary, due to the following changes: Some .cmi for toplevel internals that used to be installed in`ocamlc -where` … Continue reading →

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Stacks and other stuff

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Gaius

An interesting coincidence: I happened to mention Forth in my last post, and I have also been looking at Tenacious C, a new (sadly Windows-only for now) C IDE with some innovative visualization of a program’s memory use. They’ve a … Continue reading →

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Why

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Gaius

A few thoughts on why I decided to start working on an open source project: I enjoy working in OCaml (functional languages in general, in fact), and need a project to work on that I can take in any direction … Continue reading →

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OCI*ML: Ref Cursors and Raw Messages

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Gaius

A few more additions to OCI*ML: Support for ref cursors and binding OUT variables by name as well as by position (see below) Support for type RAW in AQ (see below) oci_version function returns a tuple of (major version, minor … Continue reading →

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