Angefangen hat alles mit einem WLAN-fähigen Storenschalter, und als später noch mit Amazon Echo Dot Alexa den Weg in mein Büro zuhause fand war die Sache klar: Ich will meine Storen im Büro mit Alexa steuern können. In der Schweiz sind Storen übrigens nichts anderes als Rolladen. Was mit der Suche nach neuen Smart Home Komponenten begonnen hat, endete im Programmieren von Alexa Skills. In diesem Blogeintrag will ich aufzeigen was eingesetzt werden kann, um Smart Home Geräte welche eine…
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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance – also known as Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance OSCSA – acts as a gateway between classic storage and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Service. The appliance can be installed on an on-premises Linux system or in an Oracle Compute Cloud machine and runs in a Docker container. It offers a local cache where clients can place their files before the OSCSA moves them into the Storage Service. The communication between a client with a…
Read MoreInstall and Configure Oracle Application Express with Oracle REST Data Services and Apache Tomcat
In this article I will show you how you can install and configure Oracle Application Express (APEX) and the Oracle REST Data Service (ORDS), which is running on an Apache Tomcat application server. In previous installations I used the Oracle HTTP server and the extenstion mod_plsq. But this does not work anymore with the newest Oracle HTTP server version. In the Oracle Application Express Installation Guide is written: mod_plsql is deprecated as of Oracle HTTP Server 12c (12.1.3). For more information,…
Read MoreDATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117 apply fails – catconInit failed, exiting
Last weekend was patchday. The goal was to apply the patch 24732082 (DATABASE PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.0.2.170117) to a 12.1.0.2 database on AIX. The OPatch precheck returned no error and OPatch apply was ok. The problem was the post step, the datapatch command failed with the message catconInit failed, exiting. oracle@srvaix101:/u00/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/dbhome_1/OPatch/ [STRSP01] ./datapatch -verbose SQL Patching tool version 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Sun Apr 2 08:39:35 2017 Copyright (c) 2012, 2016, Oracle. All rights reserved. Log file for this invocation: /u00/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_45548440_2017_04_02_08_39_35/sqlpatch_invocati…
Read MoreOracle Data Pump with the 12.2.0.1.0 Instant Client for Linux x86-64
From the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) New Features Guide: Adding Oracle Data Pump and SQL*Loader Utilities to Instant Client This feature adds SQL*Loader, expdp, impdp, exp, and imp to the tools for instant client. Now you can run these utilities on machines that do not have a complete Oracle Database installation. The newest release of the Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86-64 has an additional package called Tools. This package contains Data Pump, SQL*Loader and the Workload Replay…
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