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5 Links from Around the Web (2007-04-07)

  • Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone.
    (tags: phone google)
  • JUG is a pure java UUID generator, that can be used either as a component in a bigger application, or as a standalone command line tool.
  • If you’re even an occasional XML programmer, and you don’t yet use XPath, you have an opportunity to multiply the performance and maintainability of your applications. This article details a few specific examples that demonstrate what a difference query m
    (tags: xpath xml)
  • LobShooter for Oracle (oraload) is a utility to easily up- and download Lob-Files to and from an Oracle database.
    (tags: lob oracle)
  • I’ve read recently that geeks make better lovers because they are so unaccustomed to romance that they will do anything for their mates. Also because geeks don’t have the social skills to cheat.
    (tags: fun geek)
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Here is How to Unpersist Your Persistent PL/SQL Package Data

Avoid standalone procedures and functions and always use packages to construct your application. That is one of the “best practices” when developing Oracle PL/SQL programs.

Of course, as an Oracle PL/SQL programmer you must be familiar with PL/SQL packages and you know how powerful they are in organizing your functions and enhancing the maintenance of your code.

In this post, I am going to concentrate on one feature that makes PL/SQL packages even more powerful, session persistence.

As a refresher, let’s go through some facts: Continue reading…

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