 | 10 Jan 20:00 Recently, I came across the view v$reserved_words. I wanted to know more about this view, so I did a little research and the result was the following list of questions and answers. What information does v$reserved_words give? Up to Oracle database version 10g Release 1 (10.1), the definition of this view was: This view gives a [... 5 Jan 17:20 Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Examples Organized by Topic (tags: oracle plsql sql) How to Become a Hacker [... 4 Jan 20:00 Jonathan wrote that “keep pouring cold water on everything” may not translate well because of the colloquialisms. This got me thinking about when I first arrived in the United States back in 1998. I thought I knew the English language very well. After all, I graduated from a well respected American university in Lebanon. Little [... 1 Jan 04:17 As we say bye bye to 2006, I would like to thank you, my dear reader, for reading my blog and spending part of your time leaving comments and feedback. For me, the highlights of 2006 were: The birth of my baby Julie The blogger of the year award The visit to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco I would also [... 22 Dec 15:53 There was a question on OraQA about how to stop Oracle XE from starting up with your computer. When you install Oracle XE on Windows, it creates a service called “OracleServiceXE” with a startup type of “Automatic” which means that the service starts automatically when the computer boots. One way to prevent Oracle XE from starting [... 22 Dec 15:50 Here is an interesting post about things you should avoid blogging about. I could not agree more with the following: …Theres no real point to those I cant blog cause Im too busy posts other than giving a cop-out for not keeping up with your blog. People come to your blog to read your [... 13 Dec 06:55 Johan Louwers published an Oracle Applications passwords decryption vulnerability that allows a malicious user to expose the passwords of any Oracle Applications user. In Oracle E-Business Suite, usernames and their encrypted passwords are stored in the table fnd_user: SQL> desc fnd_user; Name [... 12 Dec 14:49 Yesterday, I received the following email: Hi, We’d bought oracle 10g with RH Enterprise Linux in 2005. After year of a smooth operation we’re having following problems with Oracle 10g. - system shutdowns once a day automatically - listener could not find available handler for requested type of server [... 11 Dec 13:41 I’m having too much fun with PikiPimp this Sunday evening 8 Dec 17:20 NULL values in a database Should it be allowed to have NULL values in a database? (tags: null database) [... | | |