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I came across a very nice post about Autonomous Transactions in Oracle written by Kevin Meade on orafaq. Thought about sharing the link.
His blog also has some very nice stuff.

My hosting provider did an upgrade of server hosting my website a couple of days ago. Since then I’ve been getting an intermittent “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” message on screen, accompanied by a bunch of HTML tags. After a couple of refreshes the page appears normally, so it’s not a total right-off, but it’s very annoying.
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There is a new white paper on OTN called Upgrading from Oracle Database 9i to 10g: What to expect from the Optimizer. I am working on a 9i project which is considering upgrading to 10g (quite possibly the last such in the world) so I think we’ll find it useful. Of course, it might also be helpful to people who have already done the upgrade and are experiencing performance problems in their new environment.

JDK_PATH for installing Oracle on HP-UX

One of the most common task systems administrator are asked for is to check what version of JDK is installed and setting JDK_HOME path for doing Oracle installations. If you are not sure what version of JDK is installed on HP-UX servers here is how you can determine installed JDK version:

On my Itanium Integrity rx6600 server i have JDK version 1.5 installed. Next thing is figure out JDK path to begin Oracle installation. Software package name for JDK is “Java15JDK”. To find out path location run following command:

There is lot of confusion about setting JDK_HOME, many administrators try to set /opt/java1.5/bin as PATH but correct JDK_HOME should be “/opt/java1.5/” not the /opt/java1.5/bin:

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