I created an Oracle stored procedure the other day that used a ‘select for update’ cursor to update some information in a staging table. None of the update statements seemed to work. I thought I had the syntax wrong, etc.…
One of the frustrating aspects of programming in C++ is memory management. In Java this is, in large part, handled by the garbage collector. As long as you don’t keep references lying about that you don’t need, and the GC…
So I totally geeked out this week. I spent some time installing most of the latest Linux distros under VMWare to see how the open source operating system was coming along. I’ve dabbled with various distributions for years. I think…
This post is going to deviate a little from purpose of this blog to talk a little about backing up your data. RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a set of related storage strategies that can improve performance, redundancy,…
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