Disqus - Latest Comments for eddieawad

Re: Posting to Twitter, Take 2

Eddie Awad — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:35:44 -0000

Like you, I mainly use Twitter. For OraNA.info, I created http://friendfeed.com/orana and added the orana feed. then from the FF Account Settings, I set up feed publishing to twitter account http://twitter.com/orana That's it. It's a set and forget.

Re: Posting to Twitter, Take 2

Eddie Awad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:28:28 -0000

I used twitterfeed for a long while. Then recently I switched to using FriendFeed to automatically post OraNA.info to Twitter. I noticed that using FriendFeed is more reliable than using twitterfeed.

Re: Optimized for iPhone

Eddie Awad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:24:17 -0000

I use MobilePress on awads.net and orana.info. It uses different CSS/Ajax based on the mobile device, which means it formats for iPhone and other devices like BB for example. http://mobilepress.co.za/

Re: Tagged again - Six random things about yourself

Eddie Awad — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:42:22 -0000

After Mr. Rogers withdrew from the Oracle Community, I'm not sure how much fun the tagging game would be :) However, I enjoyed reading your 6 random things. Merry Christmas!

Re: Using Woopra to Combat Comment Spammers

Eddie Awad — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:44:09 -0000

You should have used the "Start a conversation" feature to tell Mr “Spyware Doctor” to get off your blog. That would have shocked him :)

Re: 5 Tools That Make You a More Productive Computer User

Eddie Awad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:57 -0000

Hi William, I'm assuming you're referring to the usefulness of Enso or other launcher applications. I have Firefox open all the time so it does not make much difference there. From personal experience I can tell you that using the keyboard is faster than using the mouse (once you make it a habit). I have been using Enso for a while now and I like it. For example, on my Win XP machine, I find it very convenient to highlight (Ctrl+Shift+arrow) any word in *any application* and Caps Lock + def and poof... you're on answers.com reading the word's definition. Caps Lock + sp and poof... instant spell check. I do not think that this functionality is available natively in XP.

Re: Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is the Largest Developer Community

Eddie Awad — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:45 -0000

I suggest you go to http://etrm.oracle.com and look them up there. Note that you need a Metalink account to access this site. You can also check the Oracle Apps documentation at http://www.oracle.com/techn...

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:05 -0000

Yep, and that's good for existing code. There is still however the overhead of converting it to BULK COLLECT. So, the best way is to directly use BULK COLLECT whenever you can.

Re: 5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:39:03 -0000

Thanks Mathew. Bryn's white paper is excellent. I linked to it last month from http://awads.net/wp/2008/10...

Re: HTTP POST from inside Oracle

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:25:11 -0000

@Ed: I tested your query and got the error: Certificate validation failure.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> set define off
SQL> SELECT UTL_HTTP.REQUEST('https://realtime.gpcatalogu...
me?Query=Logon&Alias;=GXSRETL&Userid;=GXSREAL&Password;=REALTIME') FROM DUAL;
SELECT UTL_HTTP.REQUEST('https://realtime.gpcatalogu...
ery=Logon&Alias;=GXSRETL&Userid;=GXSREAL&Password;=REALTIME') FROM DUAL
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29273: HTTP request failed
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1577
ORA-29024: Certificate validation failure
ORA-06512: at line 1

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

Eddie Awad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:01:24 -0000

Donald, you have a very interesting point of view. It should be fun to watch indeed.

Re: My Oracle Support Community to Launch Soon

Eddie Awad — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:25:44 -0000

@Joel, You're right. How did I miss that?! I find it hard to believe that "sharing code" is under the Don'ts. Maybe they made a mistake, they meant to put it under the Do's. I'll send them an email to inquire about this.

Re: Cool SQL Analytic Function: RATIO_TO_REPORT

Eddie Awad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:04 -0000

Thanks Sergio, I have updated my post with your new URL.

Re: 4 Useful Links for 2008-10-09

Eddie Awad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:50:58 -0000

Karl, yes it is an excellent document and I read it with very much interest.

Re: 4 Useful Links for 2008-10-07

Eddie Awad — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:22:55 -0000

You're welcome Brian.

Re: When ANSI SQL Join Syntax Does Not Work in Oracle

Eddie Awad — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:54:25 -0000

Juanky, you meant writng SQL not PL/SQL, right? Performance should be the same unless proven otherwise. I personally prefer ANSI SQL because it's easier to read.

Re: Oracle Blogger Meetup and Oracle Ace Dinner Photos

Eddie Awad — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:52:47 -0000

It was nice meeting you again. Thanks for attending the meetup.

Re: The Naked Truth of Mogens

Eddie Awad — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:33:42 -0000

I hope so too, but you'll never know ;)

Re: Oracle OpenWorld 2008 - My Schedule

Eddie Awad — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:16:23 -0000

Indeed Brian :)

Re: SQL Function Spotlight: TRIM

Eddie Awad — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:42:35 -0000

Thanks Brian. By the way, nice use of the DUMP function.

Re: SQL Function Spotlight: TRIM

Eddie Awad — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:27:35 -0000

Hmm! What is the difference between trim(sysdate) and to_char(sysdate)?

Re: New Ubiquitous Ways to Search Oracle Documentation and More

Eddie Awad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:14:21 -0000

John, More RSS goodness is great! Looking forward to meeting with you at OOW.

Re: New Ubiquitous Ways to Search Oracle Documentation and More

Eddie Awad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:49:24 -0000

Thanks Don. We are having fun with Ubiquity, aren't we? I know John has been interested in providing RSS feeds for Oracle documentation, but I'm not sure about any specific plans.

Re: SQL Function Spotlight: TRIM

Eddie Awad — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:27:01 -0000

Indeed, if you want to trim more than one character on either or both ends of a string, TRIM is not the function to use.

Re: How to track user sessions in ColdFusion

Eddie Awad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:46:40 -0000

Thinking out loud, you can use the same logic in sessionReport.cfm. But instead of creating a report, you update your database. You move the code to Application.cfm or Application.cfc so that it runs before each page.