Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…
Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…
The social network for Oracle people OracleCommunity.net was launched on January 31, 2008. Since then, it has had a tremendous growth. We went from 1 to 2,445+ members in 8 months. Existing features have been enhanced and new features have been added. Features like chat, events and the iPhone version did not even exist when [...]
In the past couple of days, I attended two special events. Here are the photos from the Oracle blogger meetup (Mohan has more here), and here are the ones from the Oracle Ace dinner.
I know that you want to put names on the faces. So, if you see yourself in any of the pictures, please [...]
Let’s take a short break from the deluge of Oracle OpenWorld related blog posts and watch this video of Oracle ACE Director Mogens Norgaard (WARNING: Not safe for work):
(via Dan Morgan)
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How do you create an RSS feed for a web page that does not have one? you use Dapper. That’s what I did with the Oracle database 10gR2 search result page. I used the Dapper generated RSS feed for this page in my oradoc Ubiquity command.
John already had an RSS feed for the 11g documentation [...]
I made it! I finally finished building my Oracle OpenWorld 2008 schedule. It was not an easy task, believe me. If I had multiple Eddie Awad clones, I would have been much happier. I will arrive in San Francisco on Sunday, September 21st around noon, so unfortunately I’ll miss half of the Oracle ACE Director [...]
If you use Firefox, you’re in for a treat. If not, please download it and resume reading about Ubiquity and how you can use it to query the Oracle database documentation library and do other neat stuff using simple commands.
Jake was struggling to define it, but basically, Ubiquity is a Firefox extension, a powerful one. [...]
The SQL function TRIM has been around since Oracle 8i and maybe earlier. TRIM enables you to trim characters from a character string. The following examples demonstrate its usage and show you a few little known features of this simple function.
Remove leading and trailing blank spaces:
SQL> SELECT TRIM (’ mystring ‘) FROM dual;
TRIM(’MY
——–
mystring
Remove [...]