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Notes of a Junior on the Path to Oracle Mastery


Notes of a Junior on the Path to Oracle Mastery
On this blog I am writing about thoughts, solutions, failures and pitfalls on the path to Oracle Mastery. It’s still a long way to go. On this blog, the main focus is learning Oracle.

Reporting Services 2005 - Using Parameters from SQL Query

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under SQL Server

Parameters can be passed to Reporting Services 2005 to be used in a WHERE clause. Values can also be selected from a dropdown list in Report Viewer.

How can this list of parameters be queried from a database? In our example a report of database server nodes has to show nodes filtered by customers. In the [...]

January 30th, 2007. 4 Comments »

Filofax or Palm?

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under Personal

It’s the same old question again and again. Filofax or Palm? Actually there are lots of possible combinations, here a few in brief:
Palm and Cellphone
Palm for PIM (Personal Information Management) and a cellphone for internetaccess. This was my solution for years. It’s great for time management and answering emails on the go. But text entry [...]

January 30th, 2007. Comment now »

Oracle Magazine

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under Books & HowTo's

This is the january/february issue of Oracle Magazine. All articles of the current issue can be found here.

Oracle Magazine is published bimonthly and is free of charge. Subscribe here.

January 19th, 2007. Comment now »

Off Topic - Sony Ericsson K800i

Published by HP Fuchs | Filed under Personal

Recently I prolonged my mobile phone contract with Orange and got a Sony Ericsson K800i Cybershot cameraphone.

It features a 3.2 mega pixels digital camera with real flashlight. The results it produces are not bad at all for a cameraphone, see here what’s possible if a good photographer uses the K800i. This new cameraphone is with [...]

January 19th, 2007. Comment now »