Conversion To Singapore License

For Malaysians who have been staying in Singapore for a long period and would like to convert their Malaysian license to a Singapore license, they need to submit the driving history record during their application for conversion. This driving record history can be retrieved from any JPJ (Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalanraya @ Road Transport Department) branch in the country.

As agreed between the two countries' government, a citizen can only hold one license from either of these country. The conversion is only is only applicable for class D and B2 license.

Please let me loosely translate the items in the document on left to English. The document is the letter accompanying the driving history record.

Sir,

Application for Validation of the Malaysia Driving license

For the purpose of Singapore Driving License Application

With reference to your application dated for the subject above

2. Your application has been approved. With this, listed below are the terms of this application for your observation:

2.1 Your license is automatically cancel beginning from the time of issuing of the validation letter.

2.2 If you did not apply or manage to obtain a Singapore driving license, you have to return the original validation letter in order for you to get Malaysia driving license again. This should not happen more than 3 years from the date of the validation letter.

2.3 If you would like to get back the Malaysia driving license, you have to return the Singapore driving license together with the driving history report from Singapore Traffic Police. The class of driving license returned to you is based on the what stated in the driving history report from Singapore Traffic Police. (The Singapore driving license must not be more than 3 years from expiry date.)

2.4 You can only apply for motorcycle class (B) and motorcar class (D) Singapore driving license. Any other classes as stated in your Malaysia driving license shall not be converted unless otherwise stated and recognized by Singapore Traffic Police.

2.5 When you obtained your Singapore driving license, the Malaysia driving license will no more be valid even though the expiry period has not lapsed. Vocational license will also stop to be valid on concordance with the Section 27(6) Road Transport Act 1987.

New Birth

We are nervously thinking of the New Birth because of the uncertainty it may bring. How are we going to bring him up, can I provide for him in such a way that he can compete with the rest. Then, there are these middle-of-the-night feeds, clinic runs, diaper changing, loud wailings and etc, that will make any want-to-be-parents before embarking on this journey. Well, after much thinking, as with any New Birth, the very act of bringing a new life itself is a good enough reason for the Parents to rejoice and celebrate the occasion. It signify the passing of the Old and coming of the New to bring us forward to the future.

BEQ Protocol Setup in TNSNames.ora

Overview of the BEQ Protocol Adapter

The BEQ Protocol Adapter, is both a communications mechanism and a process spawning mechanism. If a service name is not specified, either directly by the user on the command line or the login screen, or indirectly through an environment variable such as TWO_TASK, then the BEQ Protocol Adapter will be used. In which case, a dedicated server will always be used, and the multi-threaded server will never be used. This dedicated server is started automatically by the BEQ Protocol Adapter, which waits for the server process to start and attach to an existing SGA. If the startup of the server process is successful, the BEQ Protocol Adapter then provides inter-process communication via UNIX pipes.

An important feature of the BEQ Protocol Adapter is that no network Listener is required for its operation, since the adapter is linked into the client tools and directly starts its own server process with no outside interaction. However, the BEQ Protocol Adapter can only used when the client program and the Oracle8 server reside on the same machine. The BEQ Protocol Adapter is always installed, and always linked in to all client tools and to the Oracle8 server.

Setting up BEQ protocol

Add the entry below in tnsnames.ora :

BEQ-LOCAL =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS =
(PROTOCOL=BEQ)
(PROGRAM=oracle)
(ARGV0=oracleDUMMY)
(ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))')))
(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=DUMMY))
)

It has been setup successfully in Oracle 9i running on Windows 2000 Server.

By doing this, the SQL client will always connect to the local database as indicated in the environment variable ORACLE_SID when there is no connect string specified. For example

CMD>set ORACLE_SID=PROD

SQLPLUS>sqlplus /nolog

SQLPLUS>connect /

Connected.

SQLPLUS>

No service name entry in tnsnames.ora needed and listener need not to be running for the local client to connect to the local database.

First Step

Hi guys,

This is my first line.