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 [...]
I am one of the lucky 25 winners of the first ever Oracle OpenWorld Suggest a Session on Mix. I would like to thank everyone who voted for my session which is now live on the Schedule Builder. Here are the details:
Session ID: S3301711
Title: Simple Tips to Quickly Find Answers to Your Oracle-Related Questions and [...]
Are you an Oracle-related blogger? Are you attending Oracle OpenWorld this year? If you answered yes to both questions, then you are invited to attend the yearly blogger meetup at the ThirstyBear Restaurant and Brewery, Tuesday September 23rd at 7:00 PM.
Mark Rittman has been the person organizing the blogger meetup events for the past few [...]
On July 1st, blogs.oracle.com was migrated to a new platform, Six Apart’s Movable Type Enterprise on top of Oracle Content DB. The list of Oracle related blogs (authored by Oracle employees and non-employees) has moved to this page on the Oracle Wiki. Only Oracle employees are eligible to host blogs on blogs.oracle.com.
Along with the migration [...]
Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…
1613 Records Found, that’s the number of sessions currently up on the Oracle OpenWorld content catalog. I know I’ll be attending the AppsLab Session that Jake just blogged about and a few more. But, it looks like the sessions’ schedule hasn’t been posted yet.
I’ll be on a panel with several other Oracle ACE Directors discussing [...]
In part 1, we reviewed HTTPURIType and DBURIType. Let’s now go over a few examples of more advanced XML using the SQL functions XMLTable and XMLQuery, Oracle’s native support for XQuery.
SQL functions XMLQuery and XMLTable are defined by the SQL/XML standard as a general interface between the SQL and XQuery languages. XMLQuery and XMLTable let [...]