This has got to be
Saturday, August 16th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
This has got to be one of the funniest oracle-related threads on usenet for some time.
Archive for August, 2003
I’m in the process of
Friday, August 15th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
I’m in the process of taking my Oracle 9i Database Oracle Certified Professional exams, and this afternoon passed the third of the exams, Oracle 9i Database : Performance Tuning. I know the OCP gets a lot of stick from cynical old bearded DBAs who dismiss it as meaningless compared to years of on the job experience, [...]
Brian Duff breaks the news
Thursday, August 14th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Brian Duff breaks the news that Oracle Jdeveloper 9.0.5 is now going to be know as Oracle Jdeveloper 10G. It’s been his task to search-and-replace all instances of 9.0.5 with 10G in the Jdeveloper code base, but in his spare time he’s put together an article on the top ten toys for Java programmers in [...]
This weekend was the hottest
Sunday, August 10th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
This weekend was the hottest on record in the UK, and like most people in Brighton, I spent part of the weekend down at the beach. Here’s a few photos.
There’s a good article over
Friday, August 8th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a good article over at Oraclebase about putting together efficient SQL statements. It’s easy these days to forget about the basics like these; the way in which you list tables, use aliases, and use comparisons like EXISTS rather than IN, can have a dramatic effect on query performance and it’s these sort of basics [...]
