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Re: Essential (and free) Software Every Computer Should Have

Convicct — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:20:41 -0000

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Re: Chinese view Americans as Cowboys

Jane — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:14:11 -0000

My husband works in China. When I visited I met some lovely Chinese people. One young man went out of his way to show us China. Wonderful shopping experiences & friendship. My husband is bringing him home for Christmas. When I left China he gave me a beautiful book , Scenic Splender of China. I enjoyed it on my flight back & it now is on my coffee table. What would be an appropiate gift to give him when he leaves Orlando? I have already bought a 3 park pass to Disney for him.

Re: HTTP POST from inside Oracle

Adam vonNieda — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:27 -0000

Thanks very much for sharing that Eddie, it saved me a lot of time!

Best regards,

-Adam vonNieda

Re: 5 Tools That Make You a More Productive Computer User

Eddie Awad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:57 -0000

Hi William, I'm assuming you're referring to the usefulness of Enso or other launcher applications. I have Firefox open all the time so it does not make much difference there. From personal experience I can tell you that using the keyboard is faster than using the mouse (once you make it a habit). I have been using Enso for a while now and I like it. For example, on my Win XP machine, I find it very convenient to highlight (Ctrl+Shift+arrow) any word in *any application* and Caps Lock + def and poof... you're on answers.com reading the word's definition. Caps Lock + sp and poof... instant spell check. I do not think that this functionality is available natively in XP.

Re: 5 Tools That Make You a More Productive Computer User

William Robertson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:37:36 -0000

To open Firefox, wouldn't it be simpler to click on the Firefox icon? Or in Windows, press Win-R to get a "Run" prompt and type "firefox"? Google and Dictionary.com already do a reasonable job at defining words, and on a Mac you could use a dashboard widget (a couple of dictionary widgets are available). It all just seems less productive than what's already available.

Re: Why invest in Oracle

Artificial — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:29:19 -0000

conventional wisdom says that Oracle can’t possibly integrate all of these firms into a coherent whole. That could be true, but history says otherwise

Re: Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is the Largest Developer Community

Eddie Awad — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:45 -0000

I suggest you go to http://etrm.oracle.com and look them up there. Note that you need a Metalink account to access this site. You can also check the Oracle Apps documentation at http://www.oracle.com/techn...

Re: Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is the Largest Developer Community

pramod — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:46:46 -0000

could some body help me in telling that what are the base tables of inventory module in apps

Re: What is the COST?

Adarsh Kumar DBA — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:57:42 -0000

Yes you are perfectly Right, Decreasing Cost may not increase Query Performance
Thanks
Adarsh Kumar
Oracle DBA

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:05 -0000

Yep, and that's good for existing code. There is still however the overhead of converting it to BULK COLLECT. So, the best way is to directly use BULK COLLECT whenever you can.

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:39:03 -0000

Thanks Mathew. Bryn's white paper is excellent. I linked to it last month from http://awads.net/wp/2008/10...

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Boneist — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:19:35 -0000

It's worth noting that in 10g, if you're doing step 5, Oracle automatically converts it into step 4 for you (with a default limit of 100).

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

mathewbutler — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:41:47 -0000

Hi Eddie,

The full set of recommendations from Bryn Llewellyn can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/techn...

Best Regards,

Re: HTTP POST from inside Oracle

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:25:11 -0000

@Ed: I tested your query and got the error: Certificate validation failure.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> set define off
SQL> SELECT UTL_HTTP.REQUEST('https://realtime.gpcatalogu...
me?Query=Logon&Alias;=GXSRETL&Userid;=GXSREAL&Password;=REALTIME') FROM DUAL;
SELECT UTL_HTTP.REQUEST('https://realtime.gpcatalogu...
ery=Logon&Alias;=GXSRETL&Userid;=GXSREAL&Password;=REALTIME') FROM DUAL
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29273: HTTP request failed
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1577
ORA-29024: Certificate validation failure
ORA-06512: at line 1

Re: Format your SQL the easy way

Sashwat Gupta — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:34:16 -0000

Useful links..

Re: HTTP POST from inside Oracle

Ed Godalle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:28:30 -0000

This information is great but I'm having problems calling a url with several parameters.
SELECT UTL_HTTP.REQUEST(
https://realtime.gpcatalogu... FROM DUAL

The query returns session timed out but pasting it in the browser it says login successfully...

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

Eddie Awad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:01:24 -0000

Donald, you have a very interesting point of view. It should be fun to watch indeed.

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

Donald K. Burleson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:56:28 -0000

In order to cut-down on their labor costs, the extra cost MetaLink will allow any metal-level member to post responses to others members questions, and be evaluated on the quality of their responses!

This should be fun to watch.

MOSC will include features commonly found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, useless features such as member profile pages (where people post unverifiable experience and credentials), discussion forums (where pretenders and weirdo's insult you as they attempt to answer questions), plus private messaging for secret communications.

What could possibly go wrong?

Re: HTTP POST from inside Oracle

Jim — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:37:05 -0000

Great code example. I ran into a problem however when I used this in a loop. I got "ORA-29270: too many open HTTP requests" errors. I finally found a fix that seemed to work...
Exception
When UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY Then
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE (l_http_resp);

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

Eddie Awad — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:25:44 -0000

@Joel, You're right. How did I miss that?! I find it hard to believe that "sharing code" is under the Don'ts. Maybe they made a mistake, they meant to put it under the Do's. I'll send them an email to inquire about this.

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

joel garry — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:44:16 -0000

OK, I didn't spend too much time looking at this, but one thing caught my eye: No sharing code. WTF? We can hardly get people to say exactly what they are doing now! I'd quote some notorious forum posts, but I don't want to embarrass anybody specifically, since there are a lot of people generally who don't want to take the time to ask good questions.

Did they mean proprietary code?

I lol when I see anything called "My..." anyways. I can't help thinking of a local adult contemporary radio station that had a series of TV ads showing this lady dressing as purported listeners of other radio station formats. She looked better as a metalhead with bad attitude than as the adult contemporary!

Re: 10 Things About Computer Programming You May Not Agree With

Nancy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:57:06 -0000

I have to agree with Jared about the Peter Principle.. In all my years as a programmer, the majority of people who gravitate to management are the unskilled lackies who couldn't cut it as programmers..

The most irritating thing about that is they earn more money than the programmers and do their best to keep you under their thumb..

Yet, very few skilled programmers want to make the shift to management because they know when push comes to shove (and times get tough), they'll have their jobs long after the administrators because the programmers have hard core job skills (that are hard to find), something the administrators are severely lacking in.

Plus, the fact that no self respecting programmer could ever envision themself (or want to be) a pointy haired manager. There's no respect in that.

Most programmers I know, view the management types as constantly going out of their way to "make work" for themselves. I'd rather have a job (anyday) that I really enjoy. Plus, there's always plenty of fun, challenging programming work to do..

Re: Cool SQL Analytic Function: RATIO_TO_REPORT

Eddie Awad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:04 -0000

Thanks Sergio, I have updated my post with your new URL.

Re: Cool SQL Analytic Function: RATIO_TO_REPORT

Sergio — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:02:28 -0000

Hi Eddie,

I googling for ratio_to_report and came across your post. I noticed it links to an old blog post of mine. orablogs.com kicked the bucket a long time ago. FWIW, I revived this post on my new blog:

http://blogs.oracle.com/ser...

Sergio

Re: 4 Useful Links for 2008-10-09

Eddie Awad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:50:58 -0000

Karl, yes it is an excellent document and I read it with very much interest.