http://www.sinoptix.ro Oracle Developers Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:08:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You learn something new every day, right? Well, I certainly do (more or less). Even about PL/SQL, about which I am sure many people think I already know everything. Far from it. In fact, I learned just last week from the PL/SQL Product Manager, Bryn Llewellyn, that his recommendation regarding cursor ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/303 It's good to see some more people joining in, particularly those I already know and admire. First up is Mark Bobak, who I've met at several conferences and, as you can tell from his first few posts, is likely to have some interesting technical tales to tell. http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/275 Oracle doesn't make it terribly easy to run operating system commands from within a PL/SQL block. I suppose that's understandable, given that PL/SQL is an embedded database-oriented language. Still, developers do ask me on a regular basis about how they can do this. http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/304 As many of my readers likely know by now, I have been working for the past several years on the Quest Code Tester development effort. Code Tester is the most powerful PL/SQL test automation tool available. You describe the expected behavior of your programs and Code Tester generates your test code, ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/305 A few months ago, I posted on this blog an explanation of how to use Toad's Code Templates to standardize development and improve productivity. I included an XML document that contains over 20 templates that I thought you might find useful. I also asked my readers to produce XML transformations ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/306 I was just looking up a link to the original YAPP paper so that I could include it in the course notes and then noticed Anjo Kolk's site is back online. I think it might be a little while before things are back to normal, though - sounds like there's ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/223 Time for a quick break from the final push to complete the course slides. I've (probably foolishly) decided to apply the 10.2.0.4 patch to my test database. As I was confirming the details of when Oracle starts to flush information from the ASH Buffer to the workload repository, I thought I'd ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/224 Collaborate08, annual conference of the International Oracle User Group, and several other national and international user groups, will be held in Denver this year, from April 13th to the 16th. I am going to present three papers, including (for the first time) Weird PL/SQL. I thought you ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/253 On the one hand, I regret the fact I seem to be posting a lot of links to other people's work at the moment but I couldn't let this one by, if only for those who don't use OraNA or the like and might miss it. The one consistent message ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/166 Via Laurent Schneider's blog, it looks like 10.2.0.4 is out. I've just had a quick look on Metalink and unfortunately (but unsurprisingly) it doesn't seem to be available for AIX just yet, just Linux, but it's one we've been waiting for for a while, so it's ... http://www.sinoptix.ro/archives/167