Dulcian’s Michael Rosenblum and Dr. Paul Dorsey have just completed another book for Oracle Press: Oracle PL/SQL Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques This book present a hands-on approach to enabling optimal results from PL/SQL. The book begins by describing the discovery…
If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things you Would Do Differently (Fred Lee, 2004, Second River Healthcare) is not even an IT book. As the title suggests, it is about hospital administration. But no book has influenced my thinking about project…
The New York Oracle Users Group held its Spring General Meeting yesterday. It was a great meeting with great speakers, including: Alex Gorbatchev from Pythian gave a presentation about eliminating guesswork from our decision making process in Oracle (BAAG Party) Michael Rosenblum – Dulcian, Inc. discussing common system issues…
I have lost a lot of projects due the little sentence: “We don’t want to be dependent upon Oracle.” (I just lost another one this week.) It has been used to justify all sorts of crazy decisions such as: Spend millions of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Oracle JDeveloper 10g Handbook is a software developer’s reference manual for the product. Authors: Avrom Roy-Faderman, Peter Koletzke, Paul Dorsey Book Description Publication Date: July 27, 2004 The book helps developers create web and database applications with Oracle JDeveloper 10g–the…
Oracle Developer: Advanced Forms and Reports Authors Peter Koletzke, Paul Dorsey Description Develop powerful web-based and client/server applications in record time. Maximize the power of Oracle Developer to create sophisticated, flexible, and user-friendly database applications. This unique guide contains an invaluable…
