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Access has Its Place
Access has Its Place Our reader’s comments are varied. However, one thing that appears common in almost every comment, for or against, is that Access is bad as long as it stays where it belongs. It is a great tool for prototyping, one step up from spreadsheet power users. It helps support needs for ETL, reporting, monitoring and other niche […]
Explicit Casting Extended in DB2 10
(Troy Coleman) One detail I find very interesting about DB2 10 is its capability to perform an implicit cast function for an assignment or comparison operation when the data types don’t match. IBM designed this feature to make it easier to port applications to DB2 for z/OS.
Task flows: Sayonara auto AM nesting in 11.1.2.0.0. Hello, ah, let’s call it Bruce.
(Chris Muir) In my post from last week I documented the changing behaviour of task flows and Application Module nesting between the 11.1.2.0.0 and 11.1.1.X.0 series of ADF & JDeveloper. In that post I detected a distinct change in the underlying behaviour of how ADF works with ADF BC Application Mod
Static Code Analysis and Code Contracts
(Dino Esposito) For many, it’s hard to believe that there was ever a time when you could print the entire source code of an application, read it from top to bottom and catch bugs or possible misbehavior. The complexity of modern software makes this approach impractical for humans—but not for some ty
Processing the Groupon API with Altova MapForce
(DaveMcG) We often think of a data integration project as a translation from one singular data input file to some other data set, but Altova MapForce lets you greatly expand the concept of an input file.
C# Null Coalescing Operator and its Uses
(Suprotim Agarwal) The C# Null Coalescing Operator (??) is a binary operator that simplifies checking for null values. It can be used with both nullable types and reference types. It is represented as x ?? y which means if x is non-null, evaluate to x; otherwise, y.
Using Scalar Functions for Retrieving Data
(Joel Murach) In this fifth part of a nine-part series on retrieving data from tables with the SELECT statement, you’ll learn how to use scalar functions, and more.
Starting and Stopping OBIEE 11g on Linux
(oraclenerd) I mostly get to play around with OBIEE on Linux at home. Clients are only running it on Windows now.
Microdata + RDF
(Jeni Tennison) As part of the ongoing discussion about how to reconcile RDFa and microdata (if at all), Nathan Rixham has put together a suggested Microdata RDFa Merge which brings together parts of microdata and parts of RDFa, creating a completely new set of attributes, but a parsing model that m