Sometimes expdp jobs fail for any number of reasons. Re-running the tool, I noticed that the number had increased since the prior run; e.g., SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_02 instead of SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01. As it turns out, these are potentially orphaned jobs, so clean ’em up! Generally, copied from Anar Godjaev’s excellent blog post: SQL> select owner_name, job_name, operation, job_mode, state, attached_sessions from dba_datapump_jobs; SQL> drop table {owner_name}.SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01; SQL> purge table {owner_name}.SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01;

Work around for this issue is to increase the amount of space allocated to db_recovery_file_dest; e.g., $ sqlplus sys as sysdba SQL> show parameter db_recovery_file; db_recovery_file_dest string /opt/oracle/flash_recovery_area db_recovery_file_dest_size big integer 20G Compare this with the output of ‘du -sh’; e.g., $ du -sh /opt/oracle/flash_recovery_area 21G /opt/oracle/flash_recovery_area 21 vs 20, so set it to something a bit bigger; e.g., SQL> alter system set db_recovery_file_dest_size = 30G; Extracted from this link on Remedian.

Apple Park, it starts with the first event held today at the Steve Jobs Theatre. Today at Apple, it seems to be huge. I can’t attest to this though, haven’t been at the Orchard Road one. Apple Watch No. 1 apparently, leapfrogging Rolex. New heart rate metrics (e.g., resting heart rate, recovery rate) in watchOS 4. Next generation Watch, series 3. Built-in cellular connectivity (eSIM), so you can remain connected whilst away from the phone.

Recently I installed CentOS 7 Minimal, and lo and behold, command not found. As it turns out, ifconfig you can still get via yum install net-tools, we should be a bit more forward looking, and use it’s designated replacement. To quote Doug Vitale’s excellent article: some Linux tools that, while still included and functional in many Linux distributions, are actually considered deprecated and therefore should be phased out in favor of more modern replacements.

I’d successfully hidden ’em distracting grid lines in Excel via (Ribbon) > View > Gridlines, but then I wanted to hide (similarly distracting) page breaks. As it turns out, this option is pretty well hidden: File > Options > Advanced > Display options for this worksheet > Show page breaks Also note that this option is set on a per-worksheet basis, so you’ll have to uncheck once for every worksheet you may have.

I use my 23" monitor as the main display when paired with my 14" Windows laptop (HP EliteBook 840 G3). 150% display scaling is fine with 23" of glorious, screen real estate, but eye-achingly small on just 14"; i.e., when I go for meetings. As a result, I’d toggle between 100% and 150% display scaling, and there’s the added hassle of having to re-login for this change to take effect.