Monthly Archives: April 2007

Conditional Compilation…

Oracle has decided to add Conditional Compilation to Oracle 10g Release 2. As Bryn Llewellyn states in his white paper Conditional Compilation in Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Unusually, but for very compelling reasons, the feature has been made available in patchsets of releases of Oracle Database earlier than the one that introduced the feature. It is […]

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Software Renovation…

Here’s a new idea (well maybe not too new). How about taking an existing database and then building a new front-end to it. I think there are a lot of applications running in companies that are not really up-to-date. Especially with their user-interface. They might even still be Dos/terminal based. Why are these applications still […]

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Single Point Of Definition

Today I read a post by Jeroen van Wilgenburg on the Amis Technology Blog: Why you should never ever copy code – An example of complete chaos. He states that copying code (in the same schema) is almost always a bad idea. I agree with this point of view. In my opinion you should always […]

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Some new stuff…

…on the blog (again). I decided to change the skin of the blog again. I had some complaints that the previous colors. They weren't really readable. Too dark. So for now I am using this setup. I also included snap on this site, so you preview the sites I am linking to. Hopefully soon, I have […]

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Recursive programming…

If you don’t know where to start your with your program, recursion might be an option. I am working on some (perhaps useless) package code to convert an integer into a boolean representation. When I am converting the integer, I don’t know where to start my conversion. If the integer is relatively small and I […]

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A different approach…

Steven Feuerstein has presented a new approach to the development workflow in his best practices presentation he held in The Netherlands last week. He did this presentation about three times for different audiences. I have seen his approach before and I think the idea is pretty good. Don’t know if and how we can use […]

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Will Designer compete with CodeGen??

Oracle Designer 10G now seems to have an extension that will allow you to generate the source code of your choice. Extend Designer generation capabilities using Oracle Designer Extension Builder (ODEB). Generate the source code of your choice from the Designer metadata based on user-defined templates. ODEB also provides a way to export solutions (Driver, […]

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