SQL Server 2005 more complex
Jared posted on the oracle-l mailing list a link to eWeek’s review of SQL Server 2005. It is an interesting review and shows that SQL Server management is starting to be more complicated. I grabbed the following Oracle related points from the review: Continue reading…
Comments Off | Filed in Oracle, Technology | Tags: microsoft, sql-serverFormat your SQL the easy way
Let’s face it, SQL code is much easier and faster to read and understand when it is formatted, especially when it is a long and complicated SQL statement you are dealing with. Unformatted SQL can be a pain and can take a long time to understand. To feel the pain, take this example: Continue reading…
23 Comments | Filed in Oracle, Tips | Tags: formatter, sqldel.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family
Well, it’s Friday afternoon and nothing much is happening, except that del.icio.us is now owned by Yahoo!. First Flickr and now del.icio.us. I use both services. No matter how hard I try, they always find a way to keep my Yahoo account active. (via)
Comments Off | Filed in Technology | Tags: del.icio.us, yahooDoes your blog look cheap?
According to Nick Wilson, here are the ten signs of a cheap blog:
- Hyphenated-Domain-Names.com
- The Host owns the Domain
- Using the Default Template
- Cheap Advertising
- Posting “Daily Links”
- Hit Counters
- Colored Backgrounds
- Fixed Width Designs
- Stupid Fonts
- Gimmicks
I do not agree with most of Nick’s description of what makes a blog cheap. I agree, however, that the appearance of a blog plays a role in making the readers more or less comfortable while reading. But, what makes me a loyal reader and regular visitor is the content of a blog and not how it looks. Content rules.
Take for example the Oracle bloggers, many of them use Google’s Blogger service and are hosted on blogspot.com, does this make them cheap? Not to me. As I have just said, content is what matters, everything else is secondary.
4 Comments | Filed in Interesting Stuff | Tags: blogThe world’s largest database runs Oracle
In a recent press release, Winter Corporation, a leading center of expertise in database scalability, announced the results of the 2005 Winter TopTen Program, a survey of the world’s largest and most heavily used databases. Here are some interesting facts: Continue reading…
23 Comments | Filed in Oracle, Technology | Tags: database, surveyMore on Generating Strings
A while ago I blogged about how you could use the rpad function to generate a string of any length. Kristian suggested another way to do it, using the dbms_random.string function. In this post, I will write about what I have noticed when using the two approaches. Continue reading…
Ten Worst Software Bugs
Before going into the worst bugs, do you know why computer program errors are called “bugs” and why developers like myself “debug” programs? It all goes back to September, 1945. Here is the story: Continue reading…
6 Comments | Filed in Technology | Tags: bug, software
