Last week I had the pleasure of attending another UK OUG event, the “Norther Server Techonology day” in Leeds. The usergroup organized this event in “the north” to make it easier for north-base members to attend interesting events.
Note: since when is Leeds that far north? Most attendees still had to come south to attend. [...]

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i needed to scan the source of an application that is stored in a LONG column in an Oracle 9ir2 database table. Another example is scanning the code of triggers in the Oracle database.
The Oracle SQL Character Functions, like INSTR(), can be used on CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, or NCLOB, but not on a [...]

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and wants to upgrade to Forms 10g without the fuss of upgrading Headstart 3.4.2 to 6.5.4?
At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we had to upgrade a Designer 1.3.2 repository to 10g, including the use of the latest version of Headstart.
It’s no fun to modify all the Forms code [...]

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At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we upgrade Forms from version 3.0-9i to 10g. Every now and then one of our customers raises the question if it’s possible to run Oracle Webforms in client-server mode “like they used to do”.
The arguments against running webforms in a browser are [...]

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This years javaone conference is about to happen and since my conference pass has been ordered it is time to wrestle myself through the program in order to find the most optimal schedule in terms of quality and time. Meaning a lot of reading, shuffling, weighting and head-scrabbing. A process which probably will last untill [...]

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Last week the latest release of the Spring frame work was announced on the springframeworkdotorg website. Nothing special, just an .0.x bugfix and enhancement release, actually nothing exiting. So why is it worth a blog entry? Because of the curious announcement that spring bean creation has gone through tremendous performance improvements. Let me Quote: “Regarding [...]

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Bjarne Stroupstrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, has an interesting technical FAQ about C++. He has an example in the FAQ that inspired me to try this out in C++, Java and C#. Have a look at the following C++ code. What do you think this prints?
(NOTE: The C++ code looks a bit [...]

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