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Oracle 11g Launch
Oracle's launch of database 11g will be webcasted. It starts at 10 AM ET. Unfortunately I'll probably miss the live webcast as we're wrapping up visits and packing today to fly out early tomorrow to...
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OOW 2010 Keynote
The keynote tsarted with some general hints on things to do at the conferense and hings that can help make the experience even better. After that safra Catz gave out the excellence awards. Next up was...
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OOW 2010 Tuesday Morning
The morning was kicked off with a presentation about new features with interactive reports in APEX 4.0. A demo shows how to create an icon enabled report for basic product list report. Every product...
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OOW 2010 Tuesday Afternoon
The afternoon had one of the sessions I knew I would enjoy the most before I even got here. It was Carly Millsaps "Thinking clearly about performance". THe reason I anticipated a great presentation is...
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OOW 2010 Wednesday Afternoon
The afternoon started off with a presentation on the result cache in 11G. It was held by Rob van Wijk. DB result cache is a cache for the resultset of a query or a plsql block. If the same query is...
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Oracle VirtualBox and Developer Days Appliance
At the start of the Christmas break I decided to get started with Oracle VirtualBox 4.0. To get up an going faster with an 11g database I opted to download the pre-made image (called appliance by...
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Suppressing repeating values in SQL
Sometimes you my find a need to suppress repeating values in SQL. One case is when your reporting tool does not have such a feture or you just cannot find it fast enough. That happened to me with a...
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Previous post hidden
I have hidden my previous post on the explicit request by Oracle Security Team. If you did read it or have it in your RSS, please do not forward or talk about it online until further notice. I’m not...
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Google reader is dead, long live RSS
So calling Google Reader dead may be a bit premature, but Googles announcement of their intention to kill their baby all but killed it. On monday it is RIP for the reader. I’ve gone through disbelief...
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It’s a Miracle
Time to get back into blogging. I stopped a while ago and the reason was two-fold. As I was leaving my job at Kentor AB I wanted to avoid any concerns with what I wrote while my three month long two...
View ArticleSigning up for scary stuff
So I subscribe to the idea that the only way to improve is to dive in on the deep end. Sink or swim. With that in mind I sent in an abstract to RMOUG and actually got it accepted. Now, this is a...
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Get your virtual mojo on
I have for a few years created a play environment in a similar way. Getting a database installed in a VM is not too hard. But I found that I did it fairly often and not always in the same way and not...
View ArticleSpeaking 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...
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