Starting up a database Oracle 10g Windows

Did you also get a off-the-shelf installation of Oracle? Did the host crash?

And the Enterprise Manager did not succeed to get up the DB on the feet again? Well...on Windows there are two things that have to be done.

1. Make sure that the User - on the local machine - that are running the processes is defined in the Local Security Settings.
2. Make sure that you learn how to start up the database via DOS window.

Item 1 you can study on some Microsoft Windows page on the 'net.

Item 2, please follow these instructions:

SQLPLUS /NOLOG
SQL> connect username/password as sysdba
SQL> startup

Of course there are parameters, but the default way to start up a database are the steps above.

A walk down the memory lane

Found a T-shirt. The infamous T-shirt that had "Screw LMF" on front.

And the Code in Digital VMS Operating system on the back to do just that.

$COPY SYSLICENSE.EXE SYSLICENESE.EXE_ORIGINAL
$PATCH SYSLICENSE.EXE
PATCH>dep/i address='instruction'

PATCH>update
PATCH>exit

are some lines.

Patching in the Operating System. What a life!

These were the days when licensing policys were introduced in the IT market. Digital Equipment had just implemented this policy. The first License Management Facility had seen the light of the world.

I do not recall the year, it can be somewhere around 1985 or so.

The T-shirt is still one of my keepers. It was handed to me, secretly, folded at a DECUS conference a long long time ago in a galaxy not so far away.

Social media F2F and on-line communities

This is a tryout. Just entering some text and see what happens. Could influence some parts of the DB-industry, or not at all. Anyway. Here it is:

In the on-line communities of today we face some issues not present in every day face-to-face situations. The on-line communities consist of participants that are to be found from a variety of cultures and they are forced to write in another language than their mother-tongue. Various cultural differences influence degree of participation in on-line communities.

Using a language that is not your mother-tongue furthermore in a mainly written environment presents some issues. How will you get your thoughts thru? How do you connect via a language that is not known by heart. You are also forced to write - and not speak – in that foreign language. However, the video and image based communities might present a solution.

This thesis is a practical walk-through of a 27 year long experience in on-line communication, from the stumbling steps in text based communication systems when Internet was just born. It also covers the necessary adaptations and limitations forced upon on-line communication in a multi-cultural non face-to-face world.
One finding made is that it become more easy to get the communication to flow if there are common (multi-cultural, non F2F and non-mother-tongue) jokeable items within the on-line community.