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About Oracle’s Code of Ethics, MOS Confidentiality Clause, and Content Stolen from My W...

6 November 2014 Written by Christian Antognini

I strive to keep the number non-technical posts on this blog to the minimum. However, there are days when a non-technical post has to be written. This is one of such days. Oracle Corporation, concerned about legal and ethical issues, not only provides to its employees a document entitled Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, […]

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ORA-00001: unique constraint (METALINK.SYS_C005417) violated

25 July 2009 Written by Christian Antognini

This is a partial screenshot of an application without a decent error handling. Do you recognize it? It goes without saying that no further comments are needed…

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New Infrastructure

9 February 2009 Written by Christian Antognini

This is just a short note to point out that I just moved this site to a new infrastructure (new hosting provider, new WordPress version and new MySQL version). If the migration went fine, nobody should notice the difference ;-) If you have any problem, please, let me know! For a couple of days (i.e. […]

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No Space Left on Device

8 September 2008 Written by Christian Antognini

Some of you probably noticed that this site had some availability problems during the last two days :-( For that I have to thank “my” ISP. Somehow a disk was full and, of course, some services didn’t like that at all! Anyway, now it seams that everything is up and running. I really hope that […]

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Never Say Never

31 May 2008 Written by Christian Antognini

Only a couple of years ago, I would never have thought I would start blogging. But, you know, as Forrest Gump’s mom said “Life’s a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re gonna get.” So, here I am… the first post… Sticking to the topic “Never Say Never”, I would like to share […]

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