Eddie Awad recently posted about some new Technorati "Authority" rankings for blogs included in his Oracle blog news aggregator, OraNA. Well I gave Eddie the sad puppy-dog-eyes and he graciously has added this blog to the collective.Now I just need some suckers to add me to their favorites ...
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Hiding "Permission denied" errors with `find`
Jon Emmons over at Life After Coffee, a blog of linux tips and tricks, has posted some tips for the "find" command. Nothing new for myself, although his tip of redirecting STDERR to /dev/null to avoid having my terminal polluted with "Permission denied" errors is something that brightened my day,...
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Back to Basics: Joins
Eddie Awad has an excellent series on the various join syntaxes, demonstrating both in the "old" Oracle syntax as well as the standard ANSI SQL92 syntax. Now you can get your head around inner vs outer joins and all the rest!I'm going to make an effort to switch to the...
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Multi-Table Inserts: A Serendipitous Tale
I was doing a bit of studying last night when the material made a passing reference to Oracle's INSERT ALL and INSERT FIRST, and then had a review question on it. So this morning I set out to do a bit of learning, and was pleased to find that not...
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More Log Buffer Pity
The latest Log Buffer is out, and this blog gets a mention for doing little other than posting about an older Feuerstein article. Honestly, I'll gladly accept any non-negative mention of this site, so keep 'em coming!