LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
I’m often asked if I can recommend a book for people. I do the occasional review but I think people are more interested in “getting started” types books. I was asked this question in a post earlier today and gave a few examples. So, here is what I am reading, have recently read, or have recently re-read.
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LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
I’m often asked if I can recommend a book for people. I do the occasional review but I think people are more interested in “getting started” types books. I was asked this question in a post earlier today and gave a few examples. So, here is what I am reading, have recently read, or have recently re-read.
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I read xkcd and actually get about 75% of the jokes, I think. Anyway, this one popped up in Reader this morning, and it made me laugh, especially in light of our recent discussions about O/S, a.k.a. the “which O/S would win in a fight” thread.
Enjoy, and read xkcd if you don’t already, and don’t [...]
Sometimes I think that people think of security, especially database security, as a domain for the highly-skilled consultant. However, sometimes it is the most basic little things that need attention and it doesn’t require a high-priced, highly skilled consultant to figure it out.
Case in point: I recently arrived at a new customer site to help [...]
The basic idea is that you can now define those additional, derived columns but without triggers and data storage. Chet has a more detailed example at the link above. Also, read the comments as Gary makes some good points. The one thing I wanted to add is that you can now define virtual columns in your partitioned tables. I tend to lean toward fully normalizing my data but there are times where…
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
OracleNerd posted an entry yesterday about virtual columns. A virtual column is basically a column that is based on an expression, i.e.
CREATE TABLE test_name (
first_name VARCHAR2(25),
last_name VARCHAR2(5
The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen
The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen
Rich’s semi-nostalgic post yesterday has some of our readers reminiscing about their first computers, ones they owned or ones they first used for geeking out, ahem, I mean programming.
For example:
Sounds like Floyd had a Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80, but he says he worked with card batches in college.
Raimonds used a real classic, the Soviet-made Elektronika BK-0010.
We [...]