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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Tiger Woods Apology word cloud and word-frequencies

19-Feb-10

See that tiny little ‘s-o-r-r-y’? Right under the giant ‘p-e-o-p-l-e’. He’s spoke more about others’ reactions to his infidelities than he did taking responsibility for his own actions. But what did we expect? Word-frequencies: 45 – 1 Accenture – 1 Achievements – 1 And – 1 Buddhist – 1 California – 1 Center – 1 [...]

Mapping log4java logs into Oracle External Tables

02-Feb-10

To troubleshoot a pesky java-in-the-database issue at one of my sites, I loaded the log4j jar into the Oracle JVM.  We configured the log to write to a file on the local filesystem.  I then thought it would be nice to be able to monitor the log from the database using SQL and some existing [...]