Oracle GUI client on Linux with mysql support

2010-06-22 1 min read Fedora Linux
I was looking for some nice client for Oracle and mysql. I did find mysql-administrator and navicat to be useful but this is much better. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/" target="_blank">Tora is the client that I am talking about. Installation did not take much time for me.. downloaded the instant client from oracle.com and then the tora rpm from sourceforge.net. Also downloaded the tora-mysql from http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/21/year/2002/month/01/day/28 Then tried to install all the rpms found the rpms that were missing and installed them using yum. Continue reading

SQuirrel SQL for Graphical interface to Oracle/MySQL and loads of other database -- OSS and free.

2010-06-04 1 min read Linux
<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category SQuirrel <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sql" title="SQL" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL">SQL for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface">Graphical interface to Oracle/MySQL and loads of other <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/database" title="Database" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database">database — <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/open_sound_system" title="Open Sound System" rel="homepage" href="http://www.opensound.com/">OSS and free. <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/squirrel_sql_client" title="SQuirreL SQL Client" rel="homepage" href="http://www.squirrelsql.org/">SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical SQL client written in <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000f8545aa" title="Java (programming language)" rel="homepage" href="http://java.sun.com">Java that will allow you to view the structure of a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/java_database_connectivity" title="Java Database Connectivity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading

gdialog on F11 – Leonidas

2010-06-01 1 min read Fedora
If you are using some old application or want to install some application that was developed quite some time back with GTK GUI, then you may find the application using gdialog. gdialog is no more available and is deprecated in Fedora and same functionality is provided by zenity. But the options to call zenity are slightly different so what do you do. I did a google search and found the following script. Continue reading