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Currently there is a bug with Eclipse and generating the serial version UID. When attempting to generate a serial version UID you will see a dialogue window which says “Computing serial version ID….” and “Starting virtual machine…”. Unfortunately this hangs and you are forced to kill your Eclipse IDE. I started seeing this bug after installing some JDBC plugins and the GEF plugin, I’m not sure if it’s related to that. I tried disabling the plugins but I still see the problem. Before I wasn’t having this problem.

I noticed that I haven’t encountered this problem on other installations of Eclipse, even w/ the JDBC plugins, so could just be that I have a bad build of Eclipse.

When you do a drop table on Oracle 10g, you actually don’t drop it, it goes to the Recycle Bin, kind of like Windows. To empty the recycle bin do a purge recyclebin.

Oracle has a good article about this titled Flashback Drop (Recycle Bin).

alter table [table name] modify [column name] [column type]

For example:
alter table user modify login varchar2(100)

Often when you’re consultant you find yourself stumbling into a LAN with no proper access. IT doesn’t have time to set you up so instead of waiting you have your client friend tell you his login information and then you can start mounting drives from a DOS command prompt like this.

C:\Documents and Settings\fkim>net use z: \\iis1\e$ password /user:domain\username