On my new job all Java consultants have a NLJUG membership. So when I joined the party I was given a NLJUG membership too. The name did ring a bell but a very faint one, so I decided to check out their website. NLJUG is a Dutch community of java developers. The first thing that [...]

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Here are a few lines of code I found in an application that I’m currently maintaining. I don’t know who wrote this code originally.

// Values read from somewhere
int budgetSpent = …;
int budget = …;
// Compute percentage of budget spent
int percentage = Math.round(budgetSpent * 100 / budget);

The last line of code is wrong. Can you tell [...]

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I just spotted on Howard J Rogers blog (www.dizwell.com) that Egor Starostin has put a new Beta version of its excellent Oracle Resource Profiler on line. It was not available for download anymore for several months.
http://www.oracledba.ru/orasrp/
It doesn’t have a web server interface yet like the previous version but that should be coming in the [...]

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An impressive event. I’m still busy running from session to session, and ingesting all the info. The wealth of knowledge present at the event nicely displayed here:
http://www.teamycc.com/rmoug_2007_conference/2007_presentations/Presentations.htm
Two items I want to share immediately.
First is the concept of DBTIME: the total amount of time spent by user-requests in the database. This may be the next tuning-buzzword. [...]

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The coming week I am at the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days. And considering the program, There is a lot of interesting information. There are also lots of rumors around the upcoming version 11.
Would Oracle get some items right this time ?
As always, the first challenge at any good event is to choose: [...]

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Yesterday on the Oracle Application User Groep meeting, IDS Scheer gave a presentation about the BPA Suite (ARIS). They showed in a demo how to export a business process from the BPA Suite into BPEL. This is already available today.
They also announced that there will be full synchronization functionality available this quarter. This means [...]

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