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When It’s Time to Change

(Alex Keh) Oracle supports .NET developers in a variety of ways. Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) offers many features, including support for new Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 features, such as factory classes. And as part of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, database change notification allows a .NET c

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Database Visualization

(VGirish) When handling a project with hundreds of tables, it takes some time to understand the flow within the database. Especially so if there is no document available. A possible scenario is legacy code up for maintenance or migration. After going through just a few tables, it starts to become to

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Tricks for Processing SQL Scripts

(Josef Finsel) SQL Server 2005’s Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can’t always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install script. Previous versions of SQL Server had two command-line utilities: ISQL, which uses

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Converting CSV Data to Objects

(Jeff Brand) CSV files are still found all over, and developer’s often are faced with situations for parsing and manipulating that data. Often times, we want to take the CSV data and use it to initialize objects. In this article, we’ll take a look at one approach to mapping incoming CSV data to our