Speaking at DOAG and RMOUG rocked
As I wrote a while back I was accepted to speak both at the User Group Leader summit at DOAG16 and at RMOUG Training Days. The first one was a short presentation where I talked about a large bug in...
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Database is the marquee feature again
So every year before and during Oracle Open World we all complain about how data and database is brushed to the side. This year it is the feature. It is the one thing the big sign on Moscone West...
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Help text in APEX on a dedicated page
Setting up help text in APEX is not hard but I often see it not done at all or implemented using regions with static content and then toggled on or off. That is unfortunate when there is declarative...
View ArticleHelp text in APEX in-line with page
Setting up help text in APEX is not hard but I often see it not done at all or implemented using regions with static content and then toggled on or off. That is unfortunate when there is declarative...
View ArticleCustomized help text in APEX
Yes, I’m finally back. The last post was written right before a complete period of offline before it was even scheduled to be published. That followed with slowly getting back. I have been fully...
View ArticleDoes recreating a view remove the privileges?
Short answer: No This blog post is pretty much just to document what seems to have been hard to find online. At work there was a big rework of a liquibase project due to the perception that “create or...
View ArticleQuick note on MT and applications
Are you using multi tenant with multiple containers and you’re not familiar with application containers? It allows you to set up PDBs that belong to a CDB-like PDB that “owns” them. With that you can...
View ArticleQuicktip: Don’t grant access to a synonym
I’ve seen this in a few places lately. When I ask the database gays there about it, they think this DDL would never work or “it does nothing but does not return an error”. Here is an example, All of...
View ArticleLUHNs algoritm – Three ways with SQL and PL/SQL
Have you encountered LUHNs algorithm? I can almost guarantee it even if you’ve never heard the name before. It is part of all of our lives every single day. It is used to check that various numbers are...
View ArticleSysdate for start_date i scheduler is bad
I was recently asked to investigate why a job that was to update a few thousand rows took an hour where it had been proven to do the work in just seconds in other environments. Was this new environment...
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