Category: IT
This post discusses how data retrieved from a MySQL or Oracle database using the JSTL SQL tags is processed as XML document, transformed using XSL and rendered as SVG …
On the 7th of December, I, a database administrator, had a seminar from Mr. Chris Date about “Relational Remodeled” (into the 21st century with the relational model: a technical …
Introduction Although UML 2.0 is not completely new, I was not able to have a look at it until now. For people like me, and for other people who …
While working on more advanced Statistics Reporting for our weblog, I did some investigations into JSTL and more specifically the XML and SQL tags. Yes, I know I have …
BPEL is emerging as the standard for assembling a set of discrete services into an end-to-end process flow, radically reducing the cost and complexity of process integration initiatives. The …
Managing users and privileges on countless folders and application systems, configurations and workareas as is the job of the Repository Administrator can be quite a task. Each privilege on …
An interesting problem we were working on some time ago is the following: a JHeadstart application – release 9.0.4.5 created with UIX, BC4J and Struts, JDeveloper 9.0.3 – has …
Title: Oracle Database 10g New Features – Oracle10g Reference for Advanced Tuning and Administration Authors: Daniel Liu, Don Burleson, Madhu Tumma, Mike Ault Published by: Rampant Tech Press ISBN: …
Last Friday we enjoyed one of the special privileges we have in our partnership with Oracle in The Netherlands – we have a private session on one of Oracle’s …
In this post I explore the parallel execution of Table Functions. I was told it could be done, I have seen the examples and now I have tried it …
Last Thursday evening was special. On the occasion of Chris Date’s visit to The Netherlands, the product marketing department of Oracle Netherlands had gathered some 25 odd (could also …
Yesterday we had a technical session at Amis on ADF. In one discussion a concern was raised on how all the ADF metadata and the abstractionlayers would affect performance. …
Today I discovered the 9.0.4.5 maintenance release for Oracle Designer 10g on MetaLink. It has been released on November 18th, so this is not hot news. The 9.0.4.5 is …
You may seen some enthousiastic ramblings on Table Functions in earlier posts I have written. This is another one. With approximately 50 lines of code, you can select crude …
Last week we received another shipment of books for our evergrowing library. Among this shipment were these titles:
The Oracle JDeveloper release 10.1.3 Developer preview release can be downloaded from OTN. See JDeveloper Homepage “The Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) release adds many new features, including a new …
There is a simple way to use the Expression language you use in JSTL expressions in your JSP’s, in ADF’s DataAction. Actually anywhere you can get hold of a …
There seems to be a problem in the PHP code of the Wp-Dstats2 statistics plug-in for WordPress. The problem occurs when your number of unique visitors (unique IPs) grows …
On February 8, 9 and 10, Tom Kyte will present a seminar – just around the corner, in Utrecht. See Seminar Details for details. The event is organized by …
In the whitepaper titled Modeling Stateful Resources with Web Services by Ian Foster et. al. the latest developments with respect the modeling of state with web services are very …
Perhaps SchemaSurf from Cobblesoft – FREEWARE – is worth a little investigation. SchemaSurfTM is a browser-based tool for querying your Oracle database schemas. Unlike most other tools, SchemaSurf does …
From time to time there is a need in my SQL queries to have access to a table with a specific number of records. Sometimes I want to explode …
Steve Muench wrote up a superb overview of the most commonly used classes, interfaces & their methods in the ADF BC framework (formerly known as BC4J). You might want …
Today I was at a customer site where we discussed programming using the API for Oracle Designer and Oracle SCM. I demonstrated the F5 function key in both the …
This post is the sequel to AMIS publishes a ViewObject Copy tool – JDeveloper 10g Extension (plugin) for ADF Business Components that we released last week. That post announced …
OK, it is a fairly trivial task. But when you have to prepare for workshops etc. it may take a lot of time to purge/cleanse/empty all student’s schemas without …
On OTN the new Toplink 10.1.3 Developer Preview 3 can be downloaded. See here for a list all the new features . And here for the release notes . …
In this post I collect references to interesting articles on a variety of topics – Java, SQL, Business Intelligence, Web Services, HTML/CSS, JavaScript – that I have come across. …
From both the Oracle website as well as Mark Rittman’s weblog the release of Oracle’s new enterprise level Business Intelligence product Enterprise Planning and Budgetting was announced. This tool …
We at AMIS work hard and with great fun at developing high quality applications. We like to use good tools and we like to push those tools to the …
Thusfar we have been lucky – or careless – to not have had to consider distributed application deployment. However, web-applications running in the DMZ accessed by internet users directly …
BI Beans only provides export to CSV to be imported into Excel, at least up to the 9.0.4 release: News from the BI Beans product team: In the 9.0.5 …
A topic that seems to come up again and again is the issue of reusing BC4J packages across applications and projects. And along the same lines structuring the BC4J …
Data Mining in PL/SQL applications – Supplied Package DBMS_FREQUENT_ITEMSET (new in 10gR1) Resource: Oracle 10g Supplied Packages – dbms_frequent_itemset. This package exposes some part of the Data Mining capability …
Yesterday I ran into some freaky behavior while building a web-application for Tomcat using Ant. In my build script I use the war task. I used WinZIP to check …
This brief article by Frank Manno from the Developer Shed describes a pretty, elegant way to create strings that act as hyperlink – where not just the string but …
Some time ago I wrote a post on HTML Buttons which are accessable using keyboard shortcuts. (alt-s for a save button for example). In the solution I proposed I …
In Java code you have to use arrays a lot if you want to pass a variable number of arguments to a method. The main method is an excellent …
During the JHeadstart workshop I am teaching this week there as a question: How can I – in a two-column layout – force two adjacent fields to be positioned …
Knowing that I will not be the only one posting on these features in the Java Tiger release here are some observations I made while running some tests. I …