Daily Roundup of News, Tips and Tricks for 2010-02-10
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The new YQL set of tables for Twitter enables any developer to use simple SQL-like queries to retrieve and post Twitter data. For simple user queries, getting a user’s twitter profile data is as simple as something like “SELECT * FROM twitter.status WHERE id=’8036408424?;“.
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A VARCHAR2(0) column?
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We should stop using NVL altogether and get into the habit of using coalesce instead – regardless how how annoying it is to type.
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Interview with Sue Harper, Senior Principal Product Manager for Database Development Tools at Oracle. She has been at Oracle since 1992 and is currently based in London. Sue is a regular contributor to magazines, maintains a technical blog, and speaks at many conferences around the world.
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There are a growing number of people asking the question: how do you move a VMware virtual machine to VirtualBox. So it is about time the Fat Bloke rolled up his sleeves and showed us how.
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When Oracle acquired Sun, the database giant also acquired the Java technology that was Sun's lifeblood. Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison called Java the most important technology Oracle has ever acquired. With ownership and leadership come responsibility. Java's future is now in Oracle's hands. This eWEEK slide show presents 15 ways Oracle can improve Java and boost its position in the Java community.
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