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March 30, 2022 Uncategorized

Enforcing DEFAULT values

Handling default values on columns has been an age old problem that we solved in 12c with extensions to the

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July 8, 2020 Uncategorized

Why relying on default DATE formats is a bug

Today’s quick but important message is…don’t be lazy! Look….I get it If given the choice of typing: ’01-JUL-20′ or typing

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March 30, 2020 Uncategorized

Combinations and consequences

Fellow Perth techie Scott Wesley sent me this interesting puzzle recently. He was using the long awaited feature of being

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February 23, 2016 Uncategorized

Something new learned every day

One of the reasons I leapt at the chance to be on the AskTom team when we resurrected the site,

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