Presenter Dr. Paul Dorsey is an Oracle ACE, the founder of Dulcian, Inc., an Oracle consulting firm, and president Emeritus of the NYOUG. He sat down with Oracle Magazine senior editor Jeff Erickson at the Kaleidoscope Conference 2009 in Monterey,…
Blue Button Plus
Blue Button is a simple concept: give patients’ access to their own data. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) first used the Blue Button logo on its patient portal in 2010 ,By clicking on the button, individuals could download…
Posted in Industry News
Case-sensitive object names
A tip/funny story from our colleague Grigoriy Novikov: There was one project with which I was involved that required a lot of different tools used by a lot of developers with different fields of expertise. The Java developer group was…
Tagged with: Database, Oracle, SQL, table, Table (database)
Posted in Code tips, Consulting, Resources, SQL
Posted in Code tips, Consulting, Resources, SQL
Surviving Major Database Architecture Changes – ODTUG Journal 2012
Michael Rosenblum published this article in the ODTUG Journal in 2012. The Introduction is below: Changes are inevitable in any information system. Even with the best possible requirements analysis, it is extremely hard to anticipate all of the potential changes…
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBA’s was released on August 1, 2011. It was written by 15 PL/SQL senior developers and DBAs. Since one of them is my colleague and friend, Michael Rosenblum (Misha), I got the chance to…
Tagged with: advanced PL/SQL, Database, expert, Michael Rosenblum, Oracle, PL/SQL
Posted in BLOG, Our Books, Resources
Posted in BLOG, Our Books, Resources
Creating a comma-separated list of items from a column
We needed to create a comma-separated list of items out of a column. We wanted “Red,Orange,Blue,Black,White”, and in the database we had Red Orange Blue Black White Grigoriy Novikov came up with a number of solutions: Solution 1: The basic…
Installing Oracle 32b Development tools in Windows 7
If you are trying to install some of the Oracle Development Tools (Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Designer) in a Windows 7 environment and you need access to the Registry, you can find those entries by using regedit in the…
Tagged with: Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports Builder, registry, Windows7
Posted in BLOG, Code tips, Consulting, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL
Posted in BLOG, Code tips, Consulting, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL
Oracle PL/SQL For Dummies
Find tips for creating efficient PL/SQL code If you know a bit about SQL, this book will make PL/SQL programming painless! Do you need to get up to speed on PL/SQL programming? Read this book to find out about code…
Definition of business rules
First we need to recognize that the Business Rules Forum (BRF) folks see rules as pretty big things. Ron Ross talks about the possibility of 1000 or more rules in an ERP. I think of those as analysis rules. The more detailed implementation…
Tagged with: BRIM, Business rule, FAQ, Natural language
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development, Resources
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development, Resources
Performance Considerations for Web Applications – Paul Dorsey, Michael Rosenblum IOUG Collab 2009
Paul Dorsey and Michael Rosenblum published this article in the IOUG Web Architecture Best Practices Booklet (Collab’09 edition) in 2009. The Introduction is below: Many of the performance tuning techniques applied to client/server applications that consisted of rewriting poorly written SQL code and tuning the database…
