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I came across a post about syntax highlighting for code in Wordpress on Thomas Roach’s blog who in turn saw it on Tyler Muth’s blog. There is a plugin called syntax highlighter which does all the beauty. Use is very simple:
Download it from here.
Upload to your blog’s plugins folder and extract it over there.
Now (on […]

It’s a while since I mentioned any books, so I thought I’d get myself up to days…
Reaper Man - Death takes a holiday and chaos ensues. Death is my favorite character in the Discworld series, so I really enjoyed this one.
Witches Abroad - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick have to go “abroad” do […]

Today one of my colleague was working on a simple PL/SQL procedure. Based on some logic it was returning count(*) from all_tab_columns for few tables. It gave count incorrectly for one table out of around fifty in total. He just hard coded the table name and ran it but again it showed count as zero.
Then […]

I’m home now and I’ve had some time to reflect on the whole Vienna experience…
I enjoyed the teaching, and was surprised how relaxed I felt. I expected to get nervous, but felt really calm through it all. It’s very difficult to get 13 hours of material across in 2 days. I know it’s not practical, […]

Last week the patchset 10.2.0.4 was released by Oracle.
 This patchset not only contains bugfixes but also comes with a number of New Features.
One of the highlights is the possibilty to capture a workload in a 10.2.0.4 database and ship it to an 11g database for testing.
Only with this feature in place the 11g Real Application […]