Michael McLaughlin's Page

I've moved to my own domain for reasons set out in the last blog post on the old site and first directly on the new site. If you've got an iPhone give it a hit and then reflect on using the iPhone plugin on your own blog. I've migrated all the content to the new site and eventually things should forward but I wanted to give you a heads up if you've set an RSS feed to the old site. The new site is… Continue

I had some interesting exchanges with folks at Oracle. They advised me that the blog post for configuring a Mac to work with the Oracle 10gR2 client can't be referenced because VMWare isn't supported. They suggested that I run Oracle VM. I was stunned since there were two points in the blog post. One is running Oracle Client 10gR2 on a Mac against any Oracle instance. Two is how to create a virtual Windows server to have a test environment anywhere you go. On their suggestion, I've downloaded O… Continue

A number of my students said the documentation wasn't there to create a Mac OS X client installation. Well, I put it out there now. It walks you through the Oracle specific steps for SQL*Plus and SQL*Developer. You can find the 14 magic steps here.

Somebody asked for a URI reference to the PL/SQL code for my Oracle Database 11g PL/SQL Programming book. You can find it here on the McGraw-Hill site. If you find any glitches, just… Continue

While experimenting with some of the internals in the XDB schema, I needed to discover whether some of the XDB collection types were varrays or nested tables. It was tedious, so I wrote a script to discover the type of collection, the base type of the collection, and the limit of varrays. It creates a SCHEMA_COLLECTION_TYPES view. If you're interested in discovering collection type details too, you can fin… Continue