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VArrays 101

An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:09:43 +0000

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Continuing on in my 101 series - I wrote about associative arrays, nested tables and An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology

A nested table is much like an associative array but you do not determine the index. The index grows by using the extend command and the index is always an incrementing integer value. You can use the DELETE attribute to delete individual elements so you will always want to

Record Types 101

An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:06:37 +0000

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A record type is a simple structure that combines multiple datatypes into a single package.

DECLARE
  TYPE r_person IS RECORD (
    fname VARCHAR2(30),
    lname VARCHAR2(30),
    age NUMBER );
	
  v_person r_person;	
BEGIN

 v_person.fname := 'Lewis';
 v_person.lname := 'Cunningham';
 v_p



2011 in Review and 2012 Goals
An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:59:50 +0000
To get where you want to be in life, you need to have goals. It doesn't matter if you want to advance professionally, improve a hobby or lose weight, goals help you achieve your desires.
 
I think it's important to look back at the previous year and see how you did as far as your goals. When I see how realistic my previous year goals were, then I can decide how to set my goals for the current year. Unfortunately, I didn't list my goals for 2


Ambiguity in SQL
An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:46:46 +0000
I made note of the alias and then scrolled down (waaayyyy down) to the from clause and found the alias. I saw the table and did a describe. The column in the view didn't exist in the table. WTF?!?!?!?!  I scrolled back up and made sure I had the right alias. I did. Scrolled back down, I had the right table. Checked the table, column did not exist! I recompiled the view. No errors. I was freaking out for a while but after I slowed down and rechecked the code I got it figured out. It had never occurred to me that you could even do this.


Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Day 3
An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:00:02 +0000
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This post will be updated throughout the day. Refresh often for updates.

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18:00 - Southeast Technology Customer Event

This was a networking session for Oracle customers from the Southeast US. I'm in Florida. I met quite a few people from various places in Flo


MySQL Track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00:01 +0000
It looks like MySQL will be making a splash in DC this year at ODTUG Kaleidoscope. The conference organizers have announced a new MySQL track. Is this a good thing? MySQL is not really an Oracle tool, per se. It is, however, an Oracle database. As a database geek, and as an Oracle ACE Director, I like it.