Thursday, March 16, 2006

Oracle OEM From Unix

If have an X display, you may run OEM tools from unix with "oemapp". This is like the MSWindows OEM: oemapp console
Looks in $ORACLE_HOME/bin for oemapp.

Oracle SQLPlus Without Password

Many Oracle administrators are concerned about hard-coding passwords
in scripts and crontabs. Oracle 9i from the command line allows a simple
logon like this: oracle@bighost $ sqlplus '/ as sysdba'

This provides a simple method to run scripts without a password.
Another method is to create and externally authenticated account, such as
ops$oracle. Then log on with: oracle@bighost $ sqlplus /

When using either method, remember to set up the shell environment
variables before running sqlplus.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Oracle SQL Developer

Oracle has released SQL Developer, a no-charge GUI tool for developers.

Quest has sold TOAD for several years, though hasn't done much develop in recent years. When in a software development office, the morning are filled with the croaking toad sound when developers start the application.

Tora is an open source package that has similar functionality.