Monthly Archives: March 2006

Gosling and declaring types of variables

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Gosling has a post about some comments he made regarding scripting languages, dynamic languages and static languages. I’ve read the post but haven’t gotten to root of what he said originally. The big concern I have is that I just … Continue reading →

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Fail over in the Oracle JDBC driver

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Apparently the Oracle JDBC driver supports fail over based on connection creation. I think it will support tnsnames parsing, but I’m not sure. This is supported though: jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=example.com)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=failover.example.com)(PORT=1521)) (FAILOVER=true)(LOAD_BALANCE=false) (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SID=foo))) Not the nicest format, but you only … Continue reading →

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