Author: Marco Gralike

September 11

Ahhh, I had a Howard Rogers experience, aka website problems. Friday night, I couldn’t login on my WordPress site. What ever I did, on mySQL database level or else, I wasn’t allowed to login anymore and got a nice message telling me that I used an incorrect password.

First thing that can to my mind was, of course, that the site had been hacked. So I made a backup of all my files on disk and created database backups of my mySQL databases. I afterwards checked my providers support side, speedxs.nl if I had missed something. The only thing I could find was that a message in the maintenance section saying:

Maintenance webserver Damia

As you may have noticed, there has been discovered an instability in the webserver damia. Therefore maintenance will be scheduled sooner than planned.

The maintenance process will be done next Friday and this is expected to be done during a time period of 2 hours maximum.

September 7
September 5

This is a backup of my post, with the same title, on the AMIS Technology Blog site

It is nagging…

I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be archived and you will need an account to access them). Because I am highly interested on XML / XMLDB stuff, I scrolled through the list. My eye caught the presentation of Mr. Ken Atkins. As far as I can see from his picture on his website he looks like a nice, cool guy, but I can’t resist making some remarks here about the slides from his presentation: “XML Data Into and Out of Oracle – Using PL/SQL”. Making these remarks is difficult, I wasn’t there, I don’t know the exact context in which they are said in, but…

Anyway. Hereby some of my pointers, based on this presentation…