Throughout all my years in different places, I have seen SQL, Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, DB2, Zortec, Access, and probably a few other crazy databases set up and run, and administered. Of course most of them along the way have been Microsoft SQL Server, (6.5, 7, 2000, 2005, 2008). I’ve worked with some knowledgeable DBA’s, and [...]
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Toad is a tool to let you connect to Oracle with a GUI and browse the tables, run sql, write procedures. It is kind of like Query Analyzer/Enterprise Manager for SQL 2000 or SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for SQL 2005/2008. Except it’s not, it sucks. :) As you can see from the options screen, [...]
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At my new gig, I am working on a project that is ASP.NET with an Oracle Database backend. Today I ran into an error. Data provider internal error(-3000) [System.String] What does this error mean? Heck if I know, its a generic error basically telling you that something is wrong with your connection to the database [...]
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