Technology debates
As always happens from time to time, we had the following request on AskTom today: Could you list down 2
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AskTom – the personal touch
AskTom has been answering questions from the user community for nearly 16 years. But what if that service could have
The death of the demo script
On AskTom, one of the things we always strive to do is provide demo scripts in our answers where appropriate.
On building SQL
I had a fun question on AskTom over the weekend, that of, how to display a monthly calendar for any
AskTom–some thoughts on the future
The structure of an AskTom question contains four elements: The original question Our answer A review, which can be posted
AskTom–help us to help you
On AskTom, obviously you’re are going to be posting code and/or code output. It’s probably going to be the most
New Years Resolution–test cases
If the following email came across your desk “I have two tables EMP(EMPNO,ENAME,JOB,MGR,HIREDATE,SAL,COMM,DEPTNO) and DEPT(DEPTNO,DNAME,LOCATION). When I join them I’m
The art of describing a problem
Now that I’ve been answering AskTom questions for a while, there is obviously a huge amount of variety in the
The twelve days of … AskTom
On the 1st day of AskTom, a poster sent to me A question about 12c On the 2nd day
The power of metaphor
We had a question on AskTom the other day, asking us to explain what a “latch” was. A simple metaphor
Learning is not a spectator sport 