Disqus - Latest Comments for Karl

Re: Search Oracle Documentation Google Style

Karl — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:15:42 -0000

is see no problem accessing oracle documentation content; Registering OTN was always free;
The google like search is great!!

The interesting question beside is
will Oracle buy Google or Google buy Oracle?
i'm waiting for GoogleBase 1.0 ;-)

Karl

Re: I am an Oracle Developer … huh!

Karl — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:01:04 -0000

Hi Eddie,
that's the point - always when my children talks about what i am really doing i start to explain, try to find pictures. but it'S abstract isn't it? So it would be easier for me if i would be a taxi driver - so they could very easy imagine what i am doing the whole day!

cheers
Karl

Re: Comments Do Make a Difference

Karl — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:26:24 -0000

i agree,
always if possible use constants and as metioned where the optimizer could benefit comment and do not use them.
Karl

Re: Results of the Unofficial Oracle Developer/DBA Salary Survey

Karl — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:56:27 -0000

Hi Eddie thanks for this,
i can earn 20-40% more in canada or USA; So i will leave germany going to canada or USA and buy a big big truck!
,-)
karl

Re: Blog Comments

Karl — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:40:43 -0000

done!
karl

Re: 7 Google Search Tips and Facts

Karl — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:44:35 -0000

Hi,
i searched for ~car

and found http://www.bmw.de/ as first link!
funny
Karl

Re: 7 Google Search Tips and Facts

Karl — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:55:13 -0000

Interesting i played with the slr stuff. even when i took 'slr digital 9-11megapixel $900-$1300 always canon EOS 350 was on top and not my fvaourite NIKON D80. Playing with these paramters then lead me to a never seen google message :

'We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. '

Very interesting google hacking tips!! ;-)
Karl

Re: 10 Programming Quotes and Lessons Learned

Karl — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:48:41 -0000

Hi Eddie, i always think i could add something to your points but the are complete :-(
Karl

Re: 10 Programming Quotes and Lessons Learned

Karl — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:55:29 -0000

Don't Repeat Yourself
Hi Rob, this is a sub rule of point 3 ;-)
Karl

Re: Oracle PL/SQL Guru Steven Feuerstein Wants to Meet With President Bush

Karl — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:36:17 -0000

go on Steve and check out what is real ans waht not!
Karl

Re: Oracle PL/SQL Guru Steven Feuerstein Wants to Meet With President Bush

Karl — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:46:56 -0000

Totally aggree with Eddie,
Steven was always hot in the politic things too - specially when he felt the need to fight against unrighteousness;

Karl
Germany

Re: World Population = World Population + 1

Karl — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:40:23 -0000

Hi Eddie,
i rememeber 15 years ago i took my second child, julian, home and i thought in my car - now you have two children but not double time! But it worked!
I wish You and Your wife and Your childs everything good and an impressing time at home.
Keep growing in fathership.

god bless your family

Karl

Re: Blogger of the Year 2006

Karl — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:57:38 -0000

Great Eddie!
and finally a nice picture from you.
Karl

Re: Blogger of the Year 2006

Karl — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:26:19 -0000

... There are other Oracle bloggers that deserve recognition more than I do. Iâ€™m sure they will be sooner or later.

I do not aggree Eddie ;-)
Karl
Your Blog is concentrated on oracle stuff and the kind of publishing and investing for example in other sites is unique. Your serverd the Oracle community successfully.
So in this case Oracle made the right choice ;-)
Karl

Re: Where Are You Women Bloggers?

Karl — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:47:54 -0000

Hi,
one reason woman do not work in it based environment could : 'woman take care more for the real world aspects' ;-)

I work as an external (CSC) at Commerzbank AG and i am suprised how many women i meet in teams.
And this is a good thing
Karl

Re: Give Me One Minute And I’ll Tell You If You Are Liberal Or Conservative

Karl — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:13:18 -0000

I do not use ANSI Joins; still keeping the oracle syntax of joins.
We have a UNION constellation in germany now. the lefts and the rights are doing their job together. So this is not a social effect;-)
Karl

Re: Bart’s Punishment For Asking Dumb Questions

Karl — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:09:21 -0000

It's good to look at the documentation but the weak point of it is to find for example special snytax for local indexes or even worse what's the default if i create an index on a partitioned table? is it LOCAL or GLOBAL?
i searched too long for this important point (looked at the user_ind_partitions to find the answer);

LOOK at he create table clause it's remembers me on a SQL statement with > 100 NESTED LOOPS in the plan.

hard to find the right stuff.

but I still like to search in the manual specially the 10.2 search ist great.

Karl

Re: Bart’s Punishment For Asking Dumb Questions

Karl — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:12:17 -0000

good tip Eddie!
Karl

Re: Do You Have These Symptoms?

Karl — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:03:59 -0000

never forget the good site of lazyness;
a lazy dba does not manually repeat a way again and again. He will find a way to automate it.

One major reason i create solid structured reliable code is that i am to lazy walking throug spaghetty code.

Karl
very lazy dba and database architect.

Re: Do You Have These Symptoms?

Karl — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:05:50 -0000

The picture could also have the tilte 'Ways to show Respect to Nature'
;-)

Re: Cool SQL Analytic Function: RATIO_TO_REPORT

Karl — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:44:00 -0000

Hi Eddie;
used it today the first time!
Karl

Re: NO_DATA_FOUND Gotcha

Karl — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:27:13 -0000

Raising NO_DATA_FOUND on subscription error. It seems the developers were not busy enough to create an own out_of_bound exception for it

Karl

Re: What you Ought to Know About CASE in Oracle PL/SQL

Karl — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:43:47 -0000

oh!
this was new to me the differnet behavior of a searched case expression and a statement.
Great
Karl

Re: Self Documenting Code is Not Enough

Karl — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:18:21 -0000

Hi,
i think it's a question of the scope; You need documenation outside of the code to get the whole picture and to be able to deliver your business rules/requirements to others.
In more detail the commented code tells you how the aspects of the Business requirements are implemented. Two different focus of ducumentation.

Karl Reitschuster

Re: Top 10 Ways to Know Your Software Project is Doomed

Karl — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:13:49 -0000

Ohh!
Iike this point very much : The last book you read: Oracle 8i A Beginner’s Guide.

it helps not to run into new errorful features!!
And you are compatible to almost all database releases!!! :-)

And : Developers are not responsible for any testing

The opposite is dangerous too. If the future user group of the system does not test and only developers do.

Karl

Re: Now We Know What TOAD Means

Karl — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:31:24 -0000

It seems TOAD is well designed for Cinema XXL Displays ;-)
Karl

Re: Give Me The Current Date Please

Karl — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:26:20 -0000

The should have called it CLIENT_DATE it's the date where the Client operates :-)

timestamps has another disadvanatge if you import (imp) data on a table with a timestamp, it's not loded bulk but row per row. that's what i experienced on 10.2;

if a sysdate should be used or not could be depend on businesss rules. For example using ebay a sysdate should used to store your transaction to be able to compare it against other competitiors

cheers
Karl

Re: 4 Useful Links for 2008-10-09

Karl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:36:24 -0000

Eddie, the hint to the 'Doing SQL from PL/SQL: Best and Worst Practices [PDF]' is great!!
Very interesting Document about effective Oracle PL/SQL 11g programming

Karl