My name is Rich Soule.
I’m the owner of Rich Soule Racing and an instructor for quite a few other driving schools.
I work as the Director of Consulting Service at Talan in the Oracle Technologies division (formally we were Insum), focusing on Oracle technology projects and adding extensions to Oracle Applications. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Insum.
Prior to Talan, I was a consultant at C2 which merged with Insum. Before then I was as an Enterprise Solution Architect for RFD & Associates, an Oracle reseller and software development firm in Austin Texas. Prior to RFD, I worked for Oracle for 14 years.
Additionally, I used to teach in the High Technology Division of Austin Community College, teaching the Oracle Certification program which enabled my students to get their Oracle Certified Professional certification from Oracle.
I’m also on the board for the Texas Center for Legal Ethics.
This is my blog that combines both of my hobbies, Cars and Code, in one place.
Cars and Code 
February 14th, 2015 at 5:58 am
Morning Rich, I found your site by relentless browsing for an answer for- “how to widen body of elegant grunge, or narrow the left hand sidebar” One of your posts (way back in 2011) explained how you did this, but it was a bunch of code which may as well be Chinese for me. Is there any way for me to do this without knowing code??
Thank you,
Chris W
Stillman Valley , IL
February 14th, 2015 at 8:43 am
Chris,
Not really… I might suggest having a friend who knows something about CSS work on it (trade him/her a beer?). It’s actually not all that hard, but of course you’d have to know a thing or two about editing files and such. Note that I’d really like to get the comments to be wider too.
Rich
July 15th, 2017 at 8:35 am
Good morning,
I just got a new desktop to dedicate Oracle Linux and 12cR2. I was able to work on the oracle db fine in windows, but now it’s a bit more challenging. The install went smoothly, but now all the executables are located in the bin folder. I searched all over to find an answer to this and didn’t have any luck so I’m here…. is there an easy way to have Oracle Linux build a set of program group icons the way ms windows puts a nice folder of executables in the start folder?
Thank you
February 6th, 2019 at 9:41 pm
zbarlow,
The icons on the desktop, or really in the applications menu, are more for things like SQL Developer instead of the actual database itself.
June 29th, 2026 at 12:37 am
Hi Rich,
I read your blog about the locking of accounts in 23ai. I’ve experienced the same issue and finally found the cause. Not sure you have/had the same issue, but that might be the case:
After the upgrade from 19c to 23ai, the default profile parameter INACTIVE_ACCOUNT_TIME was changed from unlimited to 365 days. And in our environment logins to the problem-accounts are executed via proxy autentication. Logins via proxy logins do not update the LAST_LOGIN value of the db-user. As a result the database considers these accounts inactive 365 days after the last ‘normal’ login, even though they are used daily, and the accounts get locked. We also had problems with the APEX_PUBLIC_USER account, with slightly different behaviour then the other accounts but that’s because the connection mechanism with APEX_PUBLIC_USER is different then with ‘normal’ db-accounts.
After setting INACTIVE_ACCOUNT_TIME to unlimed again all problems were solved.
Regards,
Hans