A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how to Save/Download files to/from Oracle using ColdFusion. The example I used in the post was about saving Excel files as a BLOB in an Oracle table.

Today, I ran across an issue with file sizes greater than 244 KB. I was testing with a 7 MB […]

Here is how to store and download Excel files to/from an Oracle database using ColdFusion.

My last post about how to pronounce a few “words” generated several comments, some of them were funny. “see-quel” was the clear winner in how to pronounce SQL.

To continue having fun and to settle once and for all how the following “words” are pronounced, I will let democracy take its course in the form of […]

This post has no real value except to satisfy a curiosity I have had since I started developing Oracle applications. Through out my career as an Oracle developer, almost every time I meet or listen to someone I hear different pronunciation for a few common acronyms and datatypes. For example:

SQL: I pronounce it “see-quel”, others […]