Bash A Shell Tricks: Search and Replace It's easy to use VS Code to search and replace text entries. Yet, mass file renaming is a fairly common task, especially when you move Ansible inventories or other artifacts across environments.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Not getting the "Sign In" button on the Oracle Fusion Middleware EM Console? Try this Quite a few times I've opened up the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control 12c console and the prompt for the user name and password is right there, but not the Sign In button (see screenshot). Where's the "Sign In" button?!The solution to
Linux A Shell Tricks: Dash-Minus Fuss All *nix systems are similar to ogres and onions - they all have layers. System layer, user layer, core commands with the neanderthal accessory lines. It adds to neverending fun. Command-line warriors should memorize all kid of argument notations and formats for the most common tools.
BPEL EMAIL activity in Oracle BPEL does not support single quotes During compilation of an Oracle SOA BPEL project, I ran into an error related to the EMAIL activity. Problem: I received an error invalid syntax when building the project, but the error message did not tell me what the issue exactly was: Error(782)
JDeveloper Testing an XSL transformation mapping in Oracle JDeveloper 12c So you developed a somewhat complicated XSL transformation in your Oracle SOA/BPEL project. But how do you go about testing this? Traditionally, we deploy the project to the SOA server, conduct a test of the end-to-end process, see what failed, and go back
Ansible Ansible: Date and Time Anyone who works with Ansible knows how to access the current date and time. But have you ever dealt with something a bit more advanced? There are a few tips you may find helpful.
Database Ghost + MySQL Upgrade I have delayed the blog upgrade as much as possible due to a mandatory upgrade to MySQL8. However, I had my decent share of database upgrades in the past, and I'm not happy to get back into this boat.
WebLogic Getting JPS-01050 when starting WebLogic (cannot open wallet) When starting up WebLogic after a network outage, we received the following exception: oracle.security.jps.JpsException: JPS-01050: Opening of wallet based credential store failed. Reason java.io.IOException at oracle.security.jps.internal.config.OpssCommonStartup.preStart(OpssCommonStartup.java:423) at oracle.security.jps.
Performance Creating a test file to test I/O performance For the purpose of testing the performance of a cloud storage volume, I recently came across the xfs_mkfile command. This command creates a file called 30GigFile.out that is 30 GB in size: xfs_mkfile 30720m 30GigFile.out What I do is simply
APEX Quickly installing APEX 22 and ORDS 22 Here are my quick notes on installing Oracle APEX Release 22.1 and Oracle REST Data Services 22.2. Extract Software 1. Set path. Use this path when installing APEX, ORDS, and Tomcat. Customize as necessary. export JAVA_HOME=/u01/oracle/jdk-18.0.1
APEX Resetting the ORDS_PUBLIC_USER password for APEX 22 and ORDS 22 I recently installed Oracle APEX Release 22.1 and Oracle REST Data Services 22.2 (installation instructions here). All was working fine, but two days later when we navigated to the web console at http://hostname:8080/ords we received the following exception: Specifically,
Expedia Why Expedia's slow killing of their desktop web experience is not a good thing TRIGGER WARNING: This post may include frustration towards recent changes made by Expedia. Expedia has recently (in 2022) redesigned their user interface to provide a completely consistent experience between desktop
AWS When specialty beats functionality While back I wrote a short piece about Pandoc. My excitement about it stands true, yet it's a last-century utility you don't want or can't use in cloud-native applications. Well, I found a new one - WKHTMLTOx
OEM Monitor JMS queues through OEM 13c If you have the WebLogic Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), you can monitor a slew of metrics. Often, I am asked if OEM can monitor if there are pending messages in a WebLogic JMS queue or topic. The answer is "sort of.
WebLogic WLST script to monitor WebLogic status, heap, JDBC, and JMS Do you want a custom script to send out an email that reports on your Oracle WebLogic Server status, heap, data source, and JMS information? If you want the an equivalent of the output below, all you need is a single crontab entry, a
Bash Promptless SFTP in bash script Want to run SFTP command in a bash script without being prompted? Here are quick examples of 2 approaches; one with password based authentication and one with private key authentication. Password Authentication cd /source_directory_on_local echo "cd /target_directory_on_remote" > /tmp/
SQL*Plus Getting ORA-12504 when connecting with sqlplus I happened to install the Oracle Instant Client (instructions here [https://chronicler.tech/quickest-way-to-set-up-the-oracle-instant-client-for-sqlplus-access-to-the-oracle-database/] ) to quickly connect to a database using sqlplus. Problem After installation, I simply tried to connect to my database as follows: ./sqlplus scott@dbhost:1521/dsoa.revelationtech.com And got
Conda Conda: Environment configuration With a high probability, you own a powerful computing device that could be used as a standalone system for developing, debugging, and testing applications. And it would be a good idea - to use virtual environments to limit cross-project dependencies and keep your OS package list under control.
JSON JQ is a new GREP If you are a cloud system administrator, security analyst, or data scientist, you already use jq (JSON Query), and if you don't, you should.
WSO2 API Manager Install WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 for Linux This post describes how to install, configure, and start WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 on Linux. Download WSO2 API Manager 1. Navigate to https://wso2.com/api-manager/ 2. Click on TRY IT NOW 3. Enter your email address 4. Click on the checkbox
WSO2 API Manager Install WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 for Windows This post describes how to install, configure, and start WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0 on Microsoft Windows. Download WSO2 API Manager 1. Navigate to https://wso2.com/api-manager/ 2. Click on TRY IT NOW 3. Enter your email address 4. Click on the
development Game of Words I felt for Wordle [https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html] the day I read about it, and now my morning starts with a fresh cup of coffee and
PL/SQL Quickest way to get PL/SQL source code from the Oracle Database I run into network or security challenges where I can't use tools to connect to my Oracle Database, so I end up having to rely on SQL*Plus to get the source of my PL/SQL code, be it a PACKAGE, PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, or
SQL*Plus Quickest way to set up the Oracle Instant Client for sqlplus access to the Oracle Database Need quick and immediate access to SQL*Plus (i.e., sqlplus) from your Linux server? 1. Navigate to: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client/linux-x86-64-downloads.html 2. Download these files: * instantclient-basic-linux.x64-21.5.0.0.0dbru.zip * instantclient-sqlplus-linux.x64-21.5.0.0.0dbru.
No Technology Today For the second day in a row, I can't get my thoughts together to write another technological post. The horror in Ukraine and the grim prospect of Russian citizens condemned
