If you ever had to perform log mining in Oracle prior to 10g, you will be pleasantly surprised by how easy and fast it is in 10g. After using 10g for several years, I finally got a chance to use log miner in 10g. Until now, flashback queries were always enough to recover errant deletes and updates. Allow me to explain.
Year: 2009
Oracle Function to Create CFQuery
Rather than creating insert and update queries in ColdFusion against an Oracle database, this function can generate the code for you. I haven’t added cfqueryparam to check the datatypes, but that would be ideal at helping prevent SQL Injection attacks.
Oracle Function to Create CFForm
If you use table and column comments, you can create an Oracle function that will create insert and update forms for you complete with table formatting and data type form fields that are limited to the number of chars in a column.
The Best XHR Script
XHR or XMLHttpRequest is arguably the cornerstone of the web 2.0 schlock and, honestly, I think it does add a great deal of value to a web application when you can execute requests and not lose your context. For example, given a list of 500+ comments to review and edit, it’s nice to be able to edit them in place rather than, edit, submit, and scroll to find where you left off. That said, I […]
Three Simple Date Functions
Over the years, I found that I was always typing the same lines of code to get at a very simple piece of information. At first, writing date functions seemed like a dumb idea. I mean, why would you need a function that returns the first day of a given month? The first of the month is always the first. I mean, the last_day(date) function makes sense. Some months have 30 days, some have 31, […]