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Stop looking for Oracle and MySQL documentation: use the dbi services firefox add-ons!

Thursday, 31 March 2011 Posted by Gregory Steulet Category Database Administration & Monitoring 2 comments

Are you often trying to find functionalities or error codes in Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2, 11gR2, or MySQL documentation? Of course, each time you are looking for this documentation you are finding unofficial documentation which is never corresponding to the version you are looking for...

We have a solution for you: five firefox add-ons that will allow you to easily find the right official Oracle and MySQL documentation you are looking for.

Our firefox add-ons will make your researches easier and faster. The five search engines add-ons can be installed with a simple click. They are fully compatible with firefox 3 and 4. Click on the links to install the dbi services add-ons from the official mozilla firefox pages - cost free, of course:

firefox add-on oracle mysql documentation

Enjoy these tools and give us some feedback on them! Also feel free to add comments on this blog if you are looking for others database add-ons.

Tags: MySQL, Oracle 10g to 8i, Oracle 11g, Firefox, Documentation

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About the author

Gregory Steulet

Gregory Steulet is Senior Consultant and Delivery Manager at dbi services.

He is specialized in MySQL, Oracle technologies and security solutions (Oracle Database Vault). His expertise also includes open source solutions such as Data Replication Block Device (DRBD)

Gregory Steulet is „Oracle Certified Professional“, „ MySQL Cluster 5.1 Certified Professional “, and „Avaloq Certified Professional“.

http://www.dbi-services.com

Comments

Dirk Nachbar says

Salü Greg,

cool stuff Your plugin is also compatible with Firefox 3.5.

Can you also provide a Search Plugin for Fusion Middleware 11g?I guess you know my preferences

Cheers

Dirk

Saturday, 02 April 2011

Gregory Steulet says

Happy to hear from you ;-) ! You’re true, this plugin is also compatible with earlier versions of Firefox.

For sure I know your preferences ;-) I'm going to provide you a plugin for Fusion Middleware 11 and maybe some others. Just have a look on my blog till next week..

Cheers

Greg

Monday, 04 April 2011