As Twitter learnt yesterday, you should always sanitise user input. I was amused to see My Oracle Support doing so….recursively :) The apostrophe in “doesn’t” got escaped once, and then again, and then again, and then again, and then again ……

Kudos to the My Oracle Support blog for taking the time to respond to my to my comment about searching for Metalink 3 SRs throwing an error. In essence, if you previously used Metalink 3 you must use https://support.oracle.com. If you use https://metalink.oracle.com/ then you’ll hit the problems I did. ML3 SR’s are not supported on https://metalink.oracle.com/CSP/ui/index.html. This front end is used for support on legacy server technology, middleware including BEA, and EBusinessSuite

A follow up to my previous post about Metalink’s “Do you mean” feature, this one made me laugh: I shall miss this kind of thing when Metalink3 merges into My Oracle Support…. Meep meep!

One of my little gripes with Metalink is its purporting to be helpful when it’s blatantly not. Here’s one: Now which is more likely, on Metalink 3; that I’m searching for sawserver (integral component to OBIEE), or sqlserver?!

I’m learning about a lot of the Oracle BI stack through reading manuals and trial-and-error. One thing I’ve realised is that Metalink holds a whole heap of useful information. For example, simply searching on “publisher cluster” throws up these two very pertinent docs: OBIEE Clustered Installation with BI Publisher (Doc ID 744515.1) BI Publisher does not accept cluster jdbc connection strings (Doc ID 559795.1) The first one is a publically available PDF, the second one is the answer to the problem I spent more time than I needed to scratching my head over yesterday.