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databases Archive
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DbFit – experimental support for In/Out parameters
Posted on February 4, 2008 | 1 CommentI’m preparing for release 1.0 of DbFit — one of the new things will be support for In/Out parameters. A pre-release with this functionality is now available for testing. - To use In/Out parameters, just define two columns for the same parameter. The one for OUT direction should have a... -
Fighting the monster
Posted on November 20, 2007 | 7 CommentsFor the last couple of years, I’ve been working with mid-size and large UK bookmakers, trying to introduce agile development practices into those environments on several projects. Although for most of the readers of this blog using agile practices is no longer a question, agile development is fairly rare when... -
Speed up database code with result caching
Posted on November 2, 2007 | No CommentsOne of the most interesting new features of Oracle 11 for me is the new function result caching mechanism. Until now, making sure that a PL/SQL function gets executed only as many times as necessary was a black art. The new caching system makes that quite easy – here is...
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