Monthly Archive: June 2016

Jun 17

Mind your spaces

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Databases, Datapump, Oracle, Trouble Shooting

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I am trying to export a database, everything except for a single table. I need to send a copy of the database to the vendor, but they don’t need a table that takes up %90 of the space in the database due to it storing a massive number of BLOBs and CLOBs This should be …

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Jun 08

Windows 10 – When You Can’t Be Trusted

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Operating Systems, Uncategorized, Windows

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Unfortunately some things require windows. Old interfaces that ensure you are running IE6, old proprietary administration software, and other things I don’t use on a daily basis. Windows 10 is one of the most frustrating versions of windows I have ever run. It pretty much assumes you are too stupid to have any idea what …

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Jun 08

Rushing = Stupid Mistakes

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Databases, Oracle, RMAN, Trouble Shooting, Uncategorized

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I am currently being asked to refresh a database. The end users are pissed because they asked for the database to be refreshed at noon yesterday, this was the first they had asked for it, and they were doing “really important things” and by 3pm were pissed that I hadn’t responded to them, let alone …

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Jun 02

ESXi Web UI

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ESXi, Operating Systems, Uncategorized

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I run mainly on Macs, which means OS X. Unfortunately that means I don’t have access to the GUI of vmware. As of 6.0 U2, vmware has a very slick web UI built into it. Just look at the following article, all I had to do was ssh to my ESXi server and run: esxcli …

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