Case-sensitive object names

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Ileana Balcu — No Comments ↓

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)
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The Software Architect’s Manifesto

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Paul Dorsey — 3 Comments ↓

We should insist on tools that support good architecture and allow us to build quality systems. There is no reason why systems built today should be harder to build than they were years ago. Just because we moved to the…

Tagged with: Architecture, Database, Database design, Software development
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Installing Oracle 32b Development tools in Windows 7

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ileana Balcu — No Comments ↓

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
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Tree Navigation in Web apps

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Paul Dorsey — No Comments ↓

Anyone can make a tree display, but tree navigation involves much more. What you really want on a tree includes all of the following: 1. Only load nodes that are necessary. 2. Provide the option to reload every time the tree…

Tagged with: PL/SQL, tips, web application development
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Definition of business rules

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Ileana Balcu — No Comments ↓

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
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