B-Day and the congratulations
It’s always interesting when you have a special event like your birthday from which persons you get a call and […]
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When the database dies….
Yesterday was a bad day for me as DBA. All begone with two distributed transactions which had a lock held
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Oracle Open World 2007
Yesterday OOW 2007 started and I can’t join it. 🙁 It’s taking place in San Francisco. Well I hope next
Technology
Oracle partner network – technical training…. nearly
Oh man, yesterday an email arrived to join a technical training provided by Oracle partner network on the 27th of
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SYS not almighty!?
I always thought that SYS is the almighty user of the database like root on linux OS. But it seems
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The beauty of Java stored procedures
Since 8i you can write stored procedures also in Java. But what is the advantage of writing a procedure in
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Today Oracle 11g and tomorrow… the whole world
Finally the time has come. I’m currently installing Oracle 11g on a test-box (thanks to my Admin for the box!).
Misc
BULK COLLECT & FORALL vs. CURSOR & FOR LOOP
After more and more reads about BULK COLLECT and FORALL and their performance improvements I decided to have a closer
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Oracle Administration course
Today I started with an Oracle Administration course and just finished the “Database Architecture” part. Well, not really new stuff
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JDBCs setMaxRows and the SELECT … FOR UPDATE clause
Today following question came up: Would the JDBC driver of Oracle regonize it, when you set the setMaxRows and perform
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Possibility of object-oriented programming in PL/SQL
Oh damn, I just get through a presentation of Steven Feuerstein and found out, that PL/SQL supports object-oriented programming. I’m
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How to spend a Friday night
What do you usually do on a Friday night? Go out with your friends, finish some work, or just watch