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If you are, like me, programming in different languages, maybe you have also noticed that you miss certain functions in a language, which are available in a different language.
What I am used to do, is either find a function or functions that perform the same task:
Delphi: Dec(i);PL/SQL: i := i - 1;

or create a function [...]

This post on Download Squad pointed me to trying Oracle SQL Developer to connect to my MySQL database on this website. After unpacking the download, I tried to connect but apparently I needed some extra software to connect to MySQL.
This link on the Oracle site shows the following table. It appears that the needed jar files are [...]

 I finally made the switch from Maxthon (for tabbed browsing) to Firefox. I needed a couple of extensions, like the mouse gestures extensions, but I think I got all the functionality I liked in Maxthon embedded in FireFox now.
 After installing FireFox, I decided to take a look at ThunderBird, since my current email application, Eudora, [...]

By default, when you press the tab-key in the editor, the indent is replaced by spaces. I wanted the generated code to contain tabs instead of spaces, so I have created the following code: An Oracle Stored Function:
create or replace function tab_char return varchar2 is begin   return chr(9); end tab_char;

In the cgml code I have [...]

Best wishes for the new year. And I hope to create some nice blog entries this year