An unavoidable fact of database support life is webconferences with clients or users. Most of the time, we’re more interested in what’s going on onscreen than in each others’ faces. But every now and then we need to have a face-to-face. Skype is popular, but I recently had the chance to try out a FOSS alternative with better security: Jami.
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Category: Utilities
“What do you mean there’s line breaks in the address?” said SQLLDR
I had a large-ish CSV to load and a problem: line breaks inside some of the delimited fields.
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Tip of the day: Always put this in your .bashrc
if you like to scp:
# If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- == *i* ]] || return
Otherwise scp will fail without error – it’s a known bug.
Search plugins: Search Oracle docs from your browser search bar
Tired of navigating to the SQL documentation every time you need to look up syntax? I created a search plugin so that you can search the SQL documentation directly from your browser’s search bar: