A few days ago Mandriva Linux delivered it’s spring update. So I waited two more days until the fresh bytes arrived at german mirrors.

There are plenty of documentations on how to install Lotus Notes 8 on a Linux box (see my link list for some hints), even on unsupported platforms as Ubuntu.

I just wanted to run DBDesigner on my mandriva linux notebook. A colleague of mine told me that it is a very productive visual Db modelling tool. So I downloaded it from http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/downloads.php, unpacked it and wanted to run it. But the script exited without any output. And no GUI window appeared. Running the app with strace showed me somethng like

Recently I wrote about a cool SQL DB client called SQL Explorer. Now a colleague of mine, who was developing against a Oracle DB presented SQL Developer. And my review reveals: It’s cool too!

Sitting in the Oracle course I get more and more in touch with SQL and its varieties Data Manipulation Language, Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Control Language (DCL) and Transaction Control Language (TCL).

But its very cumbersome to use the iSQL*Plus web front-end to write and execute all the queries.