Tutorial on defending against SQL injection

Today I have received a comment on my last post from my friend Jean Francois Verrier.
J.F. Is a courseware developer at Oracle Corporation and we have met in San Francisco and Utrecht a couple of times.
He is responsible for the New Features and RAC courseware which Oracle University uses in …
Link to the original site

A quick thank you…

Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone involved in making the 2-day PL/SQL workshop in Utrecht happen last week. Thanks to Miracle Benelux for staging the event, to Anjo for inviting me and to Annette for organizing everything, including Anjo.
Of course the biggest thanks go to everyone who came to [...]

RELIES ON clause no more…

I’ve been running through my demos before my PL/SQL workshop in Utrecht and I noticed a change in the behaviour of the PL/SQL Function Result Cache. In 11gR1 it was necessary to specify dependencies using the RELIES ON clause, but now Oracle 11gR2 takes care of Detection of Sources for you. Neat.
Cheers
Tim…
Link to [...]

PL/SQL Seminars in Belgium and Netherlands

In September I’m teaching two PL/SQL seminars for Miracle Benelux.

Brussels – September 14th & 15th.
Utrecht – September 17th & 18th.

See you there.
Cheers
Tim…
Link to the original site

A couple of links and an advert…

Instrumentation
Cary Millsap has recently pointed to a couple of postings and quoted some people on the fine art of instrumentation.  He quoted me (and got it pretty much 100% – dead on) a couple of times as well.  I’ll add a quote/story to his list of quotes…
When Oracle 10g first was released – I was [...]