Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Oracle Support Note URL Abstraction Layer

After the retirement of MetaLink last weekend, my bookmarked MetaLink Note URLs have started acting differently. The good news is, they still work. The bad news is, you must wait for the new, Flash-based UI to load before you can read the note.

So I thought "let's create something called Oracle Support Note URL Abstraction Layer, or OSNUAL. It will be shorter, easier to remember, and permanent". From now on, I will use this format whenever I reference Oracle Support Notes.

New Oracle format:
https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=262623.1

Old Oracle format:
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOT&id=262623.1

TC's format:
https://toreingolf.net/oracle/note.htm?id=262623.1

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