Oftentimes we all run into the situation where the file system is full (or almost full) and need more space. This expansion task seems to be a lot easier when using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Oracle Linux. Review the current size. [root@ol6 ~]# df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_ol6-lv_root […]
Customize/Personalize Oracle APEX Workspace Environment
When you have multiple Oracle APEX environments, e.g., development, test, UAT and production, and for multiple groups, one of the confusing things is that sometimes developers are lost on which environment they’re working on. Most of technically proficient developers can make a distinction easily from the URLs they’re currently using. However, most of less technically […]
Book Review: Android Application Testing Guide (Deigo Torres Milano) by PACKT Publishing
When I was offered to review this book, I was so excited. The topic is probably one of the least popular topics in the Android development circle based on the number of books written on Android. Most of the books in the market tend to cover solely on the area of actual development because it […]
Oracle APEX (Application Express) Built-in LDAP Test Tool Stand-alone Application
Oracle APEX provides multiple ways for authentication. The most commonly used one is the LDAP authentication. Configuring it is very straight-forward in most cases – just providing the LDAP host, port, whether or not to use SSL, and finally the DN string. See here and here for posts about APEX LDAP configuration. Sometime you want […]
Book Review: Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials by Ben Prusinski and Syed Jaffer Hussain (Packt Publishing)
Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) becomes the technology of choice for highly available and highly scalable deployment of enterprise Oracle database environment. With its innovative technology it comes with no surprise its complexity. The complexity is not only with the underlying database technology itself, but also how well you design and implement it to work […]
SQL Developer with “I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded” when connecting to MS SQL using Windows Authentication
I encountered this error “I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded” when using Oracle SQL Developer connecting to a MS SQL database using Windows Authentication. Fortunately, couple web sites (here and here) already mentioned about this. Basically, from the jTDS distribution downloaded files, I have to copy a DLL file named ntlmauth.dll (which is […]