Daily Archives Thursday, May 2008

APEX 3.1.1 Patch set released


APEX 3.1.1 Released

Incase you didn’t spot it yet the APEX 3.1.1 patchset has been released.
You can download the patch from Metalink, Joel Kallman has blogged with more details on the patch number (7032837).

Planning for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008

I’m writing this posting mid-way across the North Sea returning from the Swedish and Finnish User Group Conference, and looking in my diary I’ve noticed it’s only a few weeks until it’s time for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans. As the flight’s a couple of hours I thought I’d put my [...]

Karen Morton

Today I’ve added Karen Morton’s blog to my Blog list. I met her a few years back at a course I helped teach in Tennessee. She generously describes that the course changed her life, and she has since changed mine.Recently, Karen helped me found Method R…

When to use Triggers (and when not to!)

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

By request, this entry will discuss some issues surrounding DML triggers. Triggers are a nifty feature. When you need them, they are very useful. They can also make maintenance and debugging an absolute nightmare.

API vs Trigger Approaches

I am an API style program

DITO

I never used Oracle Web Conference OWC, for security reason. Today I created one SR and read first time about Demo It To Oracle (DITO). This is basically a link CamStudio.org, which is a tool that records AVI file and converts AVI to flash SWF file. This is nice to have because you do need [...]

When to use Triggers (and when not to!)

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

By request, this entry will discuss some issues surrounding DML triggers. Triggers are a nifty feature. When you need them, they are very useful. They can also make maintenance and debugging an absolute nightmare.

API vs Trigger Approaches

I am an API style progr

Essbase Dimension Member Aliases and Unique IDs

If you’ve read my recent OTN article on Essbase and you’re an old Essbase hand, one of the things you might have picked up on what that I defined my dimension members using the descriptive columns in the SH Sample Schema dimension tables. For example, in the Product dimension that I built, I defined the [...]

OWB 11gR2 beta

We have been accepted onto the OWB 11gR2 beta program, so over the next few months we will be putting the new features (and some of the old ones) through their paces. There are some pretty strong new features with the product, we are unable to provide details of these at [...]