Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Every time you log into Oracle, you create a session. This is an easy way to kill these Oracle sessions, thanks to this article.
First, select the session ID and serial number as such :
SELECT s.sid, s.serial#, s.osuser, s.program
FROM v$session s;
The osuser and program field can be used to identify [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Some pictures of Cambridge (in the UK) were added to the website. It’s near where I live these days. Some of the colleges are shown, as well as photos from a visit to Wimpole Hall. This last one is a stately home in the countryside.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The following Perl snippet is useful if you want to ask for a value from the user. The get_new_value function takes the variable name and a default value as parameter. These are printed on screen. The default value is used if no input is given.
use strict;
sub get_new_value {
[...]