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Software Development
All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL
Oracle SYNONYMs are a great feature. You can implement all sorts of backwards-compatibility tweaks simply by creating SYNONYMs in your…
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Software Development
The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software.…
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Software Development
SQL Tip of the Day: Be Wary of SELECT COUNT(*)
Recently, I’ve encountered this sort of query all over the place at a customer site: …
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Software Development
Are You Using SQL PIVOT Yet? You Should!
Every once in a while, we run into these rare SQL issues where we’d like to do something that seems…
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Core Java
The 10 Most Annoying Things Coming Back to Java After Some Days of Scala
So, I’m experimenting with Scala because I want to write a parser, and the Scala Parsers API seems like a…
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Software Development
Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as John Cleese. The same is true for Whitespace:…
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Software Development
Using Oracle AQ in Java Won’t Get Any Easier Than This
As recently announced in our newsletter, the upcoming jOOQ 3.5 will include an awesome new feature for those of you…
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Software Development
Keeping things DRY: Method overloading
A good clean application design requires discipline in keeping things DRY: Everything has to be done once. Having to do…
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Core Java
Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation
In the past, we’ve been providing you with a new article every Friday about what’s new in Java 8. It…
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