This is How You Should Ask for Help
In this video interview with ZDNet.com.au, Kyte explains how many questions he receives equate to “my car won’t start”. “I’m going to do it to you — my car won’t start, why? Give me the solution. I’m not going to tell you what errors I see on the dashboard; I’m not going to tell you if I filled the car up with gas recently; I’m not going to tell you if it’s making a noise or not making a noise; but my car won’t start, why not? There’s insufficient data to even begin to answer a question like that.” Kyte also explains how the internet has changed how questions are asked, and how he doesn’t reply with RTFM.
via How developers should ask for help: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia (via)
Comments Off | Filed in Oracle, Tips | Tags: asktom, tom kyte, video5 Useful and Interesting Links for 2009-10-20
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A site where employees and Oracle Technology Network members collaboratively build and share sample applications, code snippets, skins and templates, and more (Requires an OTN login).
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A repository of useful SQL scripts brought to you by Vitaliy Mogilevskiy.
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This document contains answers to the most frequently asked spans about Oracle's JDBC drivers.
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Oracle SQL and database articles by Jonathan Gennick.
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Learn what industry analysts have been saying about Oracle's products and services.
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2 Comments | Filed in Oracle | Tags: exadata, ibm, sunIf You Have These 5 Attributes, You’re an Expert
An expert is:
- One who has tried, who has practical experience in a field.
- Conversely, one who has been tried has a few wounds to show for it. If you don’t have a glorious failure or two under your belt, you’re probably not ready to be an “expert” for others hoping to avoid the same thing.
- One who has acquired comprehensive knowledge and continues to learn about a field.
- One who has authority as appointed to them by the community for having demonstrated they know their stuff.
- One who experiments – taking the field further. I call them thinkers and tinkerers.
via Conversation Agent.
Some interesting comments:
DJ: I personally don’t love the word expert. After all, experts are usually wrong more then they are right.
Taylor: I typically assume that an expert is not open to embracing ideas which challenge their “expertness”.
Carolyn: A cynic once told me that an expert was someone who knew more and more about less and less until they knew absolutely everything about absolutely nothing!
Gavin: I guess we’re all experts in something!
Well, I can tell you one thing: Believe in proof not experts.
4 Comments | Filed in Interesting Stuff | Tags: expert4 Useful and Interesting Links for 2009-10-04
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If your cursor FOR loop contains any DML statements, you will still want to explicitly convert to BULK COLLECT. The reason is that while the optimizer will improve the performance of the query step, it will not optimize the DML statements to execute like FORALLs.
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Click Framework is a modern JEE web application framework, providing a natural rich client style programming model. Click is designed to be very easy to learn and use, with developers getting up and running within a day.
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SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool (requires Java 5 or higher) that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format.
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Free PL/SQL library to generate PDF from Oracle Database.
