As you may already know, Google grabs a copy of each web page it crawls and files it away in its cache. There are exceptions to this behavior as some website owners request not to cache their content either by using robots.txt or password protecting their sites. But, the vast majority of the data Google […]

Top 10 Largest Databases in the World (tags: database statistics) Working with REF CURSOR in PL/SQL […]

Consider the following classic employees table:

SQL> SELECT employee_id, 2 manager_id, 3 first_name, 4 salary, 5 hire_date 6 FROM employees;

EMPLOYEE_ID MANAGER_ID FIRST_NAME SALARY HIRE_DATE ———– […]

That’s what Dapper allows you to do. It allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website on the Internet.

For example, AskTom has three RSS feeds available: just updated, hot articles and most popular. The just updated feed includes updates to new and old questions. It would have been nice if […]

Data Generator Generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software. (tags: tool testing data generator) […]