Monday, March 1, 2010

Oracle[Sun] Virtual Box on Oracle Enterprise Linux

Came across an issue when installing Oracle[Sun] Virtual Box on Oracle Enterprise Linux

[root@skrajend Desktop]# ls
VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run


[root@skrajend Desktop]# ./VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.1.4 r57640 (2010-02-12T19:32:16Z) installer
Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.
The current kernel version is 2.6.18-164.el5
Problems were found which would prevent VirtualBox from installing.
Please correct these problems and try again.
[root@skrajend Desktop]#



Solution
[root@skrajend rpm]# rpm -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-devel           ########################################### [100%]
[root@skrajend rpm]#



[root@skrajend Desktop]# ./VirtualBox-3.1.4-57640-Linux_x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.........
VirtualBox Version 3.1.4 r57640 (2010-02-12T19:32:16Z) installer
Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox
Python found: python, installing bindings...
Building the VirtualBox vboxdrv kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netflt kernel module
Building the VirtualBox netadp kernel module

VirtualBox has been installed successfully.

You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual
  /opt/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf
and in the user FAQ
  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ

We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox.

[root@skrajend Desktop]#


Monday, February 8, 2010

Sample Dataset for Oracle

I was recently working on a project where there was a demand to have random set of sales and transaction data to test performance. Well I thought of a better solution and it worked out with this website http://www.generatedata.com

Interestingly the dataset can be generated directly on the website itself and the maximum rows that will be generated is 5000.

The result output can be on different forms like excel,csv,html,xml and sql.
SQL was the best part , the page gives option to select the database type and then the tablename.
By default it creates the script with the create tablename and then the insert statements.

I hope this will help people who need sample dataset.

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