Your smart phone could be dangerous for your company

Everyone uses smart phones in todays world,  we mostely have our social and professional networks enabled on our phones like facebook and linkedin.
In todays world it might be pissible that a hacker can easily identify that this perticular phone belongs to an employee of which company. We already have this information in our phones through linkedin and facebook profiles. It can also be possible that he places a silent virus on your phone and as soon as you connect your phone as a USB device it activates that virus and then you can imagine what can be done to your home or company network. Many companies have suffered such attackes in past and the owner of those devices never knew they were carrying such deadly viruses.
Safe way could be not allow any usb connections in your organization but that is not convinient, anti virus softwares on mobiles are not that good. What else can be done to minimize the effect of this upcoming threat or may be its already there?
Any comments/suggeastions are welcome.

Debugging Java Applets in Eclipse

I found this blog post very helpfull for configuring eclipse to debug applet

http://webmoli.com/2009/01/17/debugging-applet-code-using-eclipse/

Enabling SSL On Weblogic 11g

Please follow the below steps to enable SSL in weblogic 11g

1) Open Weblogic console in browser and login
2) Click on Enviornment
3) Click on Servers
4) Click on Admin Server
5) Select General tab
6) Check "SSL Listen Port Enabled"
7) Change the SSL Listen Port if you want
8) Click on save button

No restart id needed and now SSL has been enabled in weblogic.

Web services or stored procedure or both

I found two very good articles/blogs covering the debate between the use of web services and stored procedures (or both)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/who-needs-stored-procedures-anyways.html

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/my-database-is-a-web-service.html

You must also read the comments to see the arguments in favor of the author and against him.

Login bug in PL/SQl Developer version 9.0.1.1613

Today I encountered this very strange problem on PL/SQL (The version number is mentioned) , I kept the same PL/SQL window open for many hours and I was randomly connecting to production and  test databases.

OK , At one point of time I was connecting  to the test database and was trying to run an update query for a table for which I have the update rights , it was giving me insufficient privileges error (very strange) .
The only case where I should be getting this error is when I am trying to do it on production (because I don't have rights there) , So I rechecked and made it sure that I was connected to Testing.

I also checked for any column level roles defined for that table but there were no such roles defined for the column I wanted to update.


Then I ran the same query on one of my colleague's machine (of course using my login id on test) surprisingly the record got updated.

It looks like a bug in PL\SQL where it was  showing me that I am connected to test database , in reality it was connected to the production database (because I was using the same PL/SQL to connect to test and production simultaneously). And it could be very harmful for the cases where somebody has rights on both the test and production databases and while doing testing he accidentally insert/update or delete a record on production.

The safest way I found is to log off all your sessions before you are going to login to any database instance.
This option is available in PL/SQL  tool bar ---> Session --> Log Off --> ALL.

Check Oracle Version

You can run below query to get the oracle version you are using

SELECT * FROM v$version

When I try to run this query on my PL/SQL  Developer I get following result

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE    11.2.0.1.0    Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

You may get different information according to the versions you have.Note that this query will also return you some other useful information like TNS ,NJSRTL versions.

I hope this would help someone out there :).