Sometimes I need to build a small script to delete a huge set of tables of a schema.

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Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

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I run into a very big trouble on these days.

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C'è una cosa fantastica di Internet: se qualsiasi società prova a fare la furba, inserendo delle righe scritte in piccolo quando revisiona la sua API da 1.0 a 1.1, state certi che ci sarà  almeno una persona che si leggerà tutto, troverà la fregatura e sputtanerà la summenzionata società.

E' quello che è successo con Twitter, e Marco Arment analizza nei dettagli le "novità" della nuova Twitter API che passa dalla versione 1.0 alla 1.1.

Vi rimando all'articolo per i dettagli, ma in buona sostanza Twitter sta cercando di fare in modo che "se voi fate qualcosa di interessante con Twitter, bhe ora dovete collaborare con noi...per continuare a farlo....":

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I stumbled upon a very brain-f**k error on Oracle 10g on these days.

Context: the following query [sql]SELECT * FROM (
SELECT TO_NUMBER(CUSTOMER_ID) AS SNDG FROM BAD_CODES_TABLE WHERE
AND I_LIKE=UPPER('STATIC_CONDITION') AND CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE '%P%' ) S WHERE TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000[/sql] could trigger a Invalid number if CUSTOMER_ID column contains invalid numbers.

Why?

Well…if you ask to "explain plan", you will get something like

• a table full scan
  • Filter Predicates AND
    • I_LIKE=UPPER('STATIC_CONDITION')
    • TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000
    • CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE '%P%'

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Working in a big company, my work laptop came with MS-Windows7 Enterprise installed. But as you imagine, Unix is my preferred desktop environment. So let's how to configure a perfect Debian Linux for a old wolf consultant like me. You will be able to install commercial software mubmo jumbo like Oracle Express and IBM Websphere in a snap, and have a 64 rock solid system, easy to bring in a USB stick if you like.

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[caption id="attachment_5294" align="alignright" width="150"] Disapprove with me![/caption]

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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.

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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.

Even if  Oracle databases (<12) does not support auto increment, you can easily ask to your sql data modeler to generate for you a sequence and a trigger in a automatic way.

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On some environment, on some customers, Oracle connections are drop after some idle time (i.e. 2 minutes).

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