Object Types are available since Oracle 8i, but just recently I encountered a situation were they seemed to be usefull.
Picture this:
We have a product that has a certain size (length, width and heigth) of its own and a certain size when packed into a box. Ofcourse we could model this by repeating the length-, [...]

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On March 22, we have invited Duncan Mills to give a presentation at one of our Guru4Pro sessions. Duncan is a senior Principal Product Manager from Oracle. His blog can be found at http://www.groundside.com/blog.

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Finally got around to doing something with the new Oracle JDeveloper version 10.1.3 that went production a little while back. I’ve written a little about my first impressions that i had with the Early Access, but now it’s time for the ‘real deal’.
As a test i recoded an little application we made for a customer. [...]

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When I didn’t remember the exact use of a built-in PL/SQL function I usually looked it up using the Oracle Online Documentation. But now I discovered another site where every PL/SQL function or SQL statement is just one (or two) clicks away, try this. It’s much faster (doesn’t require a search through 1000’s of pages [...]

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Oracle Jdeveloper 10.1.3 was released a couple of days ago, and just now I’m starting to oversee what an immense effort it must have been. It is almost as if Oracle wanted to start from scratch with this fully featured IDE.
Just look at the amount of documentation that has already been released :

ADF Developer’s Guide [...]

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