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Getting Oracle XE to work with SpringFramework JDBC Template

Ever get this error when using Oracle XE with SpringFramework JDBC Template? SORA-12519, TNS:no appropriate service handler found You can get around it by executing the following commands: ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=150 SCOPE=SPFILE; ALTER SYSTEM SET SESSIONS=100 SCOPE=SPFILE; Then stop and start database (Oracle XE service) and you’re good to go! Remember: needs to be [...]

Getting Ruby to talk to Oracle with Cygwin

I need to be able to use Ruby to talk to Oracle databases to help us easily build scripts for maintenance and support. So, I started doing some googling and found ruby-oci8. Excellent! I’m also mainly PC bound so I needed to get this working on my cygwin installation. My entire Ruby environment is running [...]