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ecently I encountered a couple of Oracle-tuning projects that required me to evaluate the performance of PL/SQL and SQL code. I had to generate a substantial amount of data from
QL Server provides many sophisticated functions to calculate dates. But knowing how to use them can often be a challenge. Suppose you want to calculate when a package is due
fficient coding practices are hard to develop and even harder to maintain. Most likely, your coding process suffers from one of two problems: Your code throws an exception or otherwise
onsider the scenario in which you are building a Web application that displays events or appointments for different dates. If you want your users to remember this event within their
ith more and more companies moving their applications to the Internet, Visual Basic developers are faced with the problem of having to build components that scale to thousands of users.
ith all the hype that servlets, JSPs, EJBs, and distributed J2EE applications have received, the art of creating a basic interactive command line Java application has been lost. Although fancy
ne of the inherent difficulties in backup and contingency planning is that it usually takes only one thing to go wrong to bring down your entire system. To be truly
n a previous 10-Minute Solution, “New PL/SQL Features in Oracle 8i: Part I,” I write that Oracle PL/SQL programmers develop complex code nowadays, utilizing custom and Oracle-supplied packages. It therefore