Category: PL/SQL
The Oracle Technology Network just published the fourth Technology Preview for JDeveloper 11g. In the nick of time to demonstrate and announce for JavaOne 2008, that starts in a …
RuleGen is a framework that aids in implementing data integrity rules inside the Oracle RDBMS. That’s what it says on the website – www.rulegen.com – and that was the …
One of the themes of the seminar I am presenting next Tuesday – during the Red Database Symposium in The Hague – will be ‘the pro active database’. Of …
I am having fun today. Today I started in earnest with my preparation for the RedDatabase Symposium, a very promising three-day event on the Oracle Database, with a total …
door Anton Scheffer en Alex Nuijten Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die verschijnt in de Optimize, het vakblad voor Oracle ontwikkelaars in …
Showing both APEX and ADF and giving the audience some inkling as to there similarities and their differences – what is the best way of doing that? Well, one …
Last Monday, we organized an AMIS Query on APEX and ADF. Dimitri Gielis, APEX specialist, joined us and presented his ideas on APEX. I took on the role as …
Sometimes I encounter query which have a WHERE clause that starts with: select ... from ... where 1=1 and ... When asked the reason for this predicate, most of …
Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die verschijnt in de Optimize, het vakblad voor Oracle ontwikkelaars in Nederland. Vooral op het …
Another word for authentication is acces control. Authentication is the mechanism to verify the user’s identity and provide access to a system or application based on the credentials entered …
Thanks to a completed messed-up Windows (I managed to demolish my network connections beyond repair) and a helpful tutorial from Dizwell’s blog (thank you oh so very much!) I …
AMIS is proud to announce an AMIS Query on Monday 17th December 2007: Developing Web Applications with Oracle development technology: ADF and Application Express, side by side. There are …
On Thursday the 22nd of November 2007 Patrick Sinke and I did a presentation and a small workshop about Oracle Application Express. We gave an introduction of this Oracle …
Most of the presentations for the sessions presented at Oracle Open World 2007, last week in San Francisco, can be downloaded from the Content Catalog at: http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. You will …
The Oracle 11g PL/Scope feature allows us to have the PL/SQL compiler generate information on all identifiers used in our PL/SQL code. Using the information generated and available from …
The November 1st presentation that Alex and I did on 11g – focusing on features and functionality that are of particular interest for developers – is finally available for …
Next week, I am doing two presentations at Oracle Open World, both on Thursday. One is on ADF – more on that later. The other one is The Great …
There are times when a challenge presents itself. Often for no logical reason and without any direct benefit. Like doing a crosswords. I have this unconscious part of me …
Puzzelen met SQL – Testdata Generatie Anton Scheffer en Alex Nuijten Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die verschijnt in de Optimize, …
Yesterday was nice. Alex and I had two presentation ‘gigs’, the second of which was in the Amsterdam Arena, the AJAX Amsterdam stadium: It was sold out! Well, our …
We have been playing with Oracle 11g for quite some time now. Walking around in the toy-store if you like. Trying out many new features, trying to push them …
Oracle 11g introduces Virtual Columns. “What do we need Virtual Columns for, aren’t real ones more useful?” you might wonder. And what are they to begin with? A virtual …
Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the Apex 3.0 feature that migrates entire Access applications to Application Express. It took me a lot of time because I found …
The live demo presented by Carl Backstrom as presented to the attendees of the Apex European Training Days is now publicly available! You can review at Carl’s blog , …
This week Patrick Sinke and I attended the first edition of the European Application Express Training (EAET). With only a few months of experience with Oracle Application Express (APEX) …
I just came across this website "I love PL/SQL, and…", one of Steven Feuerstein’s website. If you ever attended a seminar given by Steven, you already know that he …
Today I was configuring a message driven bean to listen to an AQ queue. The tutorials and examples I found had me create the queue like this: dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table( queue_table=>'MY_QUEUE_TABLE' …
The other day one of my colleagues asked me if it is possible to create a copy of a table with all the content in it. He wanted to …
If you are a regular user of the FORALL statement, you are probably also familiar with this message: PLS-00436: implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND table …
A new feature in the Oracle 11g database is the ‘Function Result Cache’. When you create a function with the new clause ‘RESULT_CACHE’ the result of the function is …
In Oracle 11G the supplied package DBMS_SQL is extended with two new procedures: to_cursor_number, which transfers a refcursor to a "dbms_sql cursor" to_refcursor, which transfers a "dbms_sql cursor" to …
Oracle SQL Developer offers the ability to create reports with graphs in it. A number of reports are included with the tool, unfortunately a report which shows information based …
Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die verschijnt in de Optimize, het vakblad voor Oracle ontwikkelaars in Nederland. In dit on-line artikel kunnen …
What is the most common way of testing PL/SQL code? I think it is using DBMS_OUTPUT and manually verifying the results. Is it the best way of testing code? …
A nice little trick on Oracle 11G is using XMLQuery as an eval function: SQL>l 1 select substr( sys_connect_by_path( level, '*' ), 2 ) || ' = ' …
The PL/SQL compiler in Oracle 11g will give you a warning if it encounters a when others exception without a raise or raise_application_error. SQL> alter session set plsql_warnings='enable:all'; Session …
Last week I made my first steps with XML-Publisher 5.6 Desktop and I am very pleased with the simplicity you can create a report in such a short time. When …
A minor new PL/SQL feature in Oracle 11g is the new statement ‘continue’. With the continue statement you can skip to the next iteration in a loop. A small …
Last week six of us at AMIS attended the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in Daytona Beach, FL. I always need some time to digest all the information that was presented …
Wednesday 27th June, during the 4th AMIS Academy, Patrick Barel from VDA will present an introduction on QCGU, Quest CodeGen Utility – a freeware utility from Quest, inspired and …