(Steve Wellens) I’ve always appreciated these tools: Expresso and XPath Builder. They make designing regular expressions and XPath selectors almost fun! Did I say fun? I meant less painful. Being able to paste/load text and then interactively play with the search criteria is infinitely better than t
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ADF BC 12c New Feature – Entity-Level Triggers
(Andrejus Baranovskis) We have triggers support in ADF 12c! Powerful new feature is available – Entity-Level triggers. Previously it was often confusing if certain use case belongs to validation rule, or it is more generic business logic. Everything was implemented as part of validation rule in the
Bugs with rm -rf from within asmcmd
(John Hallas) Performing an rm -rf operation is normally a simple operation albeit risky if you are in the wrong folder. However within ASMCMD there are a couple of bugs associated with it.
Why is P1 the only parameter populated in cell smart table scan?
(Martin Bach) Anyone who has looked at Exadata might ask the question, and I did so too. After all, cell smart table scan is in wait class User IO so there should be more, right? This is what you find for a smart scan:
Looking out for max values in integer-based columns in MySQL
(Matthew Boehm) Yay! My first blog post! As long as at least 1 person finds it useful, I’ve done my job. 😉 Recently, one of my long-term clients was noticing that while their INSERTs were succeeding, a particular column counter was not incrementing.
Shadow DOM: encapsulation for semantic markup
(chris) This article talks about Shadow DOM which (at the time of writing) is a W3C working draft and is only supported by Google Chrome and Firefox 30.
Security Patrol: V7R2 Security Enhancements, Part 2: Implementing Row and Column Access Controls
(Carol Woodbury) Last month, I covered the auditing, password composition rule, and other miscellaneous enhancements provided in V7R2. This month, the focus is on the security enhancements associated with DB2, specifically Row and Column Access Control (RCAC).
Policing the Use of SQL Server Management Studio
(Tim Ford) Microsoft’s SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) does suffer from a lack of dedicated developer talent assigned to update it, but it’s the best tool we currently have for the full range of administrative duties database administrators face.
Standardized Navigation Principles for Android App Development
(Wallace McClure) Navigation in mobile devices is an important consideration. If a user isn’t able to navigate an app, he might quickly abandon it. Learn the navigation principles of Android to keep this from happening to you.
Another Approach to Applying Open/Closed to TSQL
Today I am sharing an approach from Maurice which uses views and triggers on views to present a consistent interface to consumers. This technique works differently from the one we presented yesterday using views, table value functions and stored procedures to maintain a static interface. Instead, Maurice exposes the views directly to consumers. Updates and inserts are propagated to one […]