Daily Archives Wednesday, April 2008

Bashing RDBMS

Please review the following interesting article by Jonathan Holland.

Why Relational Databases end up being the bottleneck

For the appropriate context of this debate, you can review this forum discussion on Joel’s web site as just one example.

Stored Proc to avoid frequent builds

As is evident from the title and content of my blog, I’m a database professional. Nevertheless, I try to stay as

Interview with Phil Bates, Oracle Business Intelligence Architect : Part 2

In yesterday’s article I posted the first half of an email interview with Phil Bates, architect for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition based down in Bristol, UK. Phil’s focus is on the vision, direction, architecture and development strategy for Oracle Business Intelligence products, and in today’s posting we ask him about the integration of Oracle [...]

My Home Office

I recently posted about working from home(which I meant to be humorous) and JJ had a question about my work space. I decided to post some pictures.

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Mini-tip #19: Bind Variables

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

Ok, I know you you’ve heard of them. Heck, in some cases, you’ve been beaten over the head with them. So why
aren’t you using them?

I’ve heard some people saying that it’s easier to code without bind variables. Really? Concatenating strings,
potentially with embedded quotes and/or varying formats, is easier than using bind variables?

I got a