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Als je dit leest en je bent Oracle professional – ontwikkelaar of administrator – is de kans groot dat je jouw carriere bent gestart in de jaren ‘90, in …
Als je dit leest en je bent Oracle professional – ontwikkelaar of administrator – is de kans groot dat je jouw carriere bent gestart in de jaren ’90, in …
I regularly teach a masterclass on Oracle SQL. One of the topics I explore in depth is the use of the CONNECT BY query style to perform not just …
The functional requirement was a little unusual. The page should either show all master-records or – depending on the value of a parameter – it should show exactly one …
An interesting discussion arose in one of the projects I am involved in. The functional requirement at stake: show records in a table. In one of the columns, show …
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October 13, 2011
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In dit tweedaagse seminar neemt Steven Feuerstein je mee ver voorbij de basismogelijkheden van PL/SQL. Steven zal tijdens dit seminar de best practices behandelen die hij op tientallen plekken …
Currently at Tom Kyte’s session regarding topics new, improved or coming in Oracle Application Development. Tom told about the history APEX has gone thru and the current setup with …
datum: dinsdag 27 september; 16.30 uur locatie: AMIS, Edisonbaan 15, Nieuwegein sprekers: Toon Koppelaars en Lucas Jellema Het belang van data integriteit behoeft geen toelichting – als het goed …
An apparently trivial challenge that still took me bit longer than expected. What is the situation: I have a table with two columns (of interest). One is a column …
No matter how complex the enterprise and application architectures become, no matter the number of tiers, services, devices and user interfaces – at the heart of most enterprises will …
The UNPIVOT operator was introduced in Oracle Database 11g – see for example: https://technology.amis.nl/blog/2421/the-oracle-11g-unpivot-operator-turning-columns-into-rows. In Oracle, the UNPIVOT operation is the process of turning Columns to Rows. Put simply, …
I have always had a fascination for the Data Visualization capabilities of all the tools and technologies I have worked with. For example: I worked with Oracle Graphics 2.0, …
There is often a need to synchronize data from a query. For example reading external data and update the tables. Sometimes it can be achieved by a single merge …
In my quest to position ‘connect by’ (and its 11g successor, Recursive Subquery) as mechanism for recursive queries rather than just an hierarchical query facility, I stumbled across a …
In previous articles, I have suggested that the arrival of the Flashback Data Archive in Oracle RDBMS 11g allowed us to finally say goodbye to journalling tables. Keeping track …
It is a strange thing really: querying the database to find missing data. Queries usually report on what is there. Not the queries in this article (and its prequel): …
It happens quite frequently that in our database applications – in queries or in PL/SQL packages – we need to use the values from more or less standard domains …
One of the key objectives – though not ulterior motives – in Service Oriented Architecture is decoupling. By decoupling currently mutually dependent agents, we introduce more opportunity for flexibility, …
Usually in SQL queries, you will try to retrieve information from a database by reading specific records from the relevant tables. However, there are situations where what you want …
Many organizations around the world have adopted Oracle technology for developing custom applications. Over the past two decades, they may have used PL/SQL, Reports, Forms, Designer, Portal or the …
Although it is all about ADF 11g these days there are still some challenges in ADF 10g projects that run at some of my customers. Today I finished a …
On our blog, we have been discussing the new hierarchical query functionality in Oracle Database 11g Release 2, using Recursive Suquery Factoring. Instead of using CONNECT BY and its …
Next month, I will visit Australia and Singapore to present on SOA and the Oracle SOA Suite – to Oracle database developers. In this one-day-long seminar, I introduce the key …
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. My collegue Lucas sees it as a substitute for Connect By based hierarchical querying, Oracle RDBMS …
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces the successor to the good old Connect By based hierarchical querying, called Recursive Subquery Factoring. The basics are described in a previous …
You are probably familiar with the FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE analytical functions that were introduced some time ago into the Oracle RDBMS, in the 9iR2 release I believe (or at …
Packages in the Oracle Database are a fine construct to use for creating a service API at PL/SQL level – that through JDBC or other connections into the database …
In our series on the 11g R2 release of the Oracle RDBMS, AMIS staff discusses various functions, features an facilities that have been added, improved or extended in …
Many years ago, Oracle basically set the standard in SQL. Whatever was Oracle SQL could be seen as the standard. This has never been absolutely true – ANSIÂ SQL was …
Last week, this weblog hit the 9M post reads mark. Since we started technology.amis.nl/blog in July 2004, it took us some 5 years to get to that point. …
On Friday April 3rd, I will be presenting a seminar titled “SOA for Database Professionals” – in De Meern, The Netherlands. For more details and registration, go to this …
Another world shattering topic: analyzing tag clouds. This article describes a very simple first step for some analysis at database level of tags that have been associated with database …
An Application Context in the Oracle Database is a name in-memory collection of key-value pairs. Applications can store values in an Application Context – using a package associated with …
One thing that always draws me in tools, libraries and frameworks: what are the hooks, the backdoors, the extension points, the APIs, the event listener registration facilities etc. Today …
The ADF 11g Tree Table component can be used for the compact presentation of fairly complex data sets. It allows the user to quickly drill down to a specific …
My challenge of the day: a query that returns aggregate values. And that can be manipulated dynamically to sometimes aggregate grouped by one dimension, sometimes along multiple or …
One of the intriguing subjects at last weeks Oracle Open World conference for me was Complex Event Processing. The ability to process streams of real time events, and up …
I just completed my second presentation here at Oracle Open World. It discusses Application Development inside and with the Database, introducing and discussing quite a few trends, concepts, best …
After Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Wife 2.0, Oracle introduces the term DBA 2.0. It seems to refer to the DBA of the very near future. The one who …
In a previous article – Not all has to be black and white in SQL Queries – , I discuss how not all searches are about perfect matches. The …