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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

…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 some [...]

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 [...]