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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: December 2011
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Thursday, 22 December 2011. Of Comments And Panties. Code comments are like underwear: people can't see them, but they really should be there, and it's best if you keep them clean. And brief. Oh, and it's never as funny as you think it is, if they contain references to Homer Simpson. Here's an article I wrote for All Things Oracle. About commenting in programming. (Un)fortunately, it contains no further references to underwear. I apologise. Treated with seriousness; however, unfortunately, they almost ne...
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: Want a free Oracle textbook? It's yours (for a price)
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Wednesday, 30 July 2014. Want a free Oracle textbook? It's yours (for a price). I have neglected this blog. I apologise. I have an excuse, though. Two. Firstly, I have been keeping busy contributing over at the All Things Oracle. Site It's nice over there; you should check it out - but not just now. Secondly, the projects I have been working on, of recent, have not involved a lot of interesting Apex, and so I have suffered for topics to write on for this blog. Okay, you're right, there is. I am a databas...
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: February 2011
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Sunday, 27 February 2011. Apex and Version Control (Or Dance like Google's watching). Sit back, young one, and listen. You may learn something. Just the other weekend I went to a party, one of those dance parties with loud, fast music, free-flowing alcohol and the type of beautiful women who wear short skirts, irrespective of the temperature outside. Y'know, just the average weekend for your typical Oracle Application Express blogger. Guaranteed success, young one. Or your money back. Application Express...
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: November 2013
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Tuesday, 5 November 2013. The forest is thick with menace. The sunlight barely breaks through the leaves and is sludgy like curdled milk; the shadows of the branches look like gnarly fingers reaching to grasp at the pair of frightened small children. As they wind down the path, Hansel leaves a trail of pebbles. “It will help us find our way home,” he says to Gretel, his voice quavering with fear. Do You Need Instrumentation? If you’ve ever asked:. Why is my application suddenly performing so poorly?
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: Introduction to Instrumentation
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Tuesday, 5 November 2013. The forest is thick with menace. The sunlight barely breaks through the leaves and is sludgy like curdled milk; the shadows of the branches look like gnarly fingers reaching to grasp at the pair of frightened small children. As they wind down the path, Hansel leaves a trail of pebbles. “It will help us find our way home,” he says to Gretel, his voice quavering with fear. Do You Need Instrumentation? If you’ve ever asked:. Why is my application suddenly performing so poorly?
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: September 2011
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011. All Things Oracle (or LeBron James's Explain Plan). I don't know if you follow basketball, but if you do - and, perhaps, even if you don't - you will know that when, in 2010, the best basketball player in the world, LeBron James, decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers he organised a one-hour television show to announce which team he had chosen to join. The Decision. As the 'extravaganza' was called was broadcast on ESPN and got 10 million viewers. Will exercise my blog mus...
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: December 2012
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Saturday, 29 December 2012. Review of Oracle APEX Best Practices (or the 200 day shower). Over the past few days I have had two books on my bedside table: on my Google Nexus I have been reading David Eagleman’s novel Sum: FortyTales from the Afterlives. And whenever I put that down, I’ve been burying my nose in the dead-tree (i.e. non-ebook) version of Oracle APEX Best Practices. By Learco Brizzi, Iloon Ellen-Wolff and Alex Nuijten. Oracle APEX Best Practices. In the afterlife in Sum. I cannot type a 200...
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: August 2012
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Friday, 24 August 2012. Authors and Awards: Usain Bolt with a pen. This post has absolutely nothing to do with Oracle, and even less to do with Apex. Sorry - you can stop reading here and I won't hold it against you. However, I recently turned my attention to my other love, literature, and did a spot of datajournalism for another blog. I'm reprinting my piece here. I'll be back waltzing and wrestling with Oracle Apex very soon. Promise. Africa's Leading Literary Powerhouses. But why stop at sportsmen?
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Dancing and Wrestling with Oracle APEX: July 2012
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012. Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 3: Flashback Database). What is Flashback Database? For those times when minor surgery is not enough, Flashback Database can apply a defibrillator to the heart of your database, shout “Clear! Setting Up Flashback Database. Flashback Database must be enabled before you can use it. This simple query will tell you whether it is or not:. SELECT FLASHBACK ON FROM V$DATABASE;. ALTER SYSTEM SET DB RECOVERY FILE DEST SIZE = 9G SCOPE=BOTH;.
