My site has been hacked by some group. Fortunately I found out pretty soon after it happened, because one of the users of the PL/SQL Developer users put a notification on the forum. Man, I hate it when this happens. Luckily for me, it was quite easy to repair (I hope I did ;)) and […]
Read moreWindows on Intel Mac
So, it’s finally official. The Intel Mac is allowed to run Windows. With the public beta of boot camp, it is possible to boot both Mac OSX as well as Windows XP. According to the website you will need an Intel based Mac for this. So for all the Windows machines out there, we just […]
Read moreSudoku Solver in PL/SQL
In my previous post I wrote about a Sudoku solver in SQLServer and I thought it wouldn’t take long to have Sudoku solver in PL/SQL. Actually, when I told this to Steven Feuerstein, he told me he got an email from someone who has already done this. He put his solution on his website with explanation […]
Read moreSudoku
Today I came across a link on how to solve sudoku puzzles using sql. It is written in T-SQL in SQLServer2000, but the code is published, so there is no reason for it NOT to be converted to PL/SQL so that it can be used in an Oracle database too ;-).
Read moreSET
Today I was browsing through my old favorites and I came across a really nice and short game I used to play just about every day: SET. They have a Daily Puzzle for you to resolve. On this site you can also find a daily puzzle for the some of the other games they have: […]
Read moreOracle 10g XE
According to the Oracle website there are 2 versions available of the 10g XE database. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Western European) and Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Universal). It appears, after trying to install Qute, that the Western European edition differs from the Universal edition not only by the char setting (Single Byte LATIN-1 […]
Read moreRSS feeds
Damn, my feed reader blew up on me today. It lost all my subscriptions. But luckily I was able to find almost all of my subscriptions again, at least my active ones. And even some new ones ;). I need to make sure my subscription list is being backed up, even if it is just […]
Read moreGoogle under fire…
Today I came across two articles on (big) companies starting to attack Google. First one I read was that Oracle Whips Google-like Search into Shape for Enterprises. Oracle says that they found a blind spot that Google has left unexplored. They want to provide a google-like interface for the users to find the information they […]
Read moreQute
Steven Feuerstein has release a new version of Qute. This time he has added a raffle when you tell what you like and dislike about the product. I think this means that Qute will become production ready really soon.
Read moreGuids as primary keys
Steven Feuerstein wrote a blog post on using Guids in Oracle. One of the things Guids could be used to create a primary key value for a record in the table. How does using this kind of primary keys relate to the speed of your queries. I could imagine that using guids can be slower […]
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