All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL

Oracle SYNONYMs are a great feature. You can implement all sorts of backwards-compatibility tweaks simply by creating SYNONYMs in your…

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The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy

There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software.…

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SQL Tip of the Day: Be Wary of SELECT COUNT(*)

Recently, I’ve encountered this sort of query all over the place at a customer site:          …

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Are You Using SQL PIVOT Yet? You Should!

Every once in a while, we run into these rare SQL issues where we’d like to do something that seems…

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The 10 Most Annoying Things Coming Back to Java After Some Days of Scala

So, I’m experimenting with Scala because I want to write a parser, and the Scala Parsers API seems like a…

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Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss

Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as John Cleese. The same is true for Whitespace:…

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Using Oracle AQ in Java Won’t Get Any Easier Than This

As recently announced in our newsletter, the upcoming jOOQ 3.5 will include an awesome new feature for those of you…

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Keeping things DRY: Method overloading

A good clean application design requires discipline in keeping things DRY: Everything has to be done once. Having to do…

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Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation

In the past, we’ve been providing you with a new article every Friday about what’s new in Java 8. It…

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