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Configuration of Oracle 12c – part un
Oracle 12c represents a fairly dramatic departure from Oracle 11g in terms of setup and configuration of the server on personal workstations. The 12c release was released in 2013, but I had delayed its...
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Configuration of Oracle 12c – part deux
In this second article regarding the installation and configuration of Oracle 12c, I’ll discuss the server’s memory configuration and the settings chosen for the default installation. Again, I’m...
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Configuring SonarQube with Oracle 12c
For a while now I’ve wanted to install SonarQube for doing static analysis of my Java EE 7 applications. The current downloadable version of SonarQube is 5.1.1. The SonarQube requirements documentation...
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What exactly is thread deadlock?
Performance testing is a key component of system testing, since a non-performant application is often viewed as just as poor as an application that contains other varieties of defects. Care and...
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Configuring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Oracle 12c
I am currently building a Java EE 7 application that will utilize an Oracle 12c database for persistent storage. Because some of the data is sensitive, I decided to enable Oracle’s Transparent Data...
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Book review: Software Architecture in Practice, 3rd edition
If you are looking for a single volume to explain software architecture, then I would recommend Software Architecture in Practice [1] by Bass, Clements, and Kazman. Software Architecture in Practice...
View ArticlePerformance overhead of SQL user-defined functions
Some time ago I wrote an article that described the performance tradeoffs one encounters when using SQL user-defined functions – sometimes called UDFs or PSM (Persistent Stored Module) functions – from...
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Teaching critical thinking skills through visual analytics
One way or another – either by being a university student, an industry practitioner, an industrial researcher, and now as an instructor – I’ve been doing “Computer Science” since 1978. Over the past 37...
View ArticleJava EE development: the PermGen error
When developing a tiered Java EE database application there are a tremendous number of program errors that will only be discovered at runtime. If one is using Hibernate as the Object-relational mapping...
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Using the debugger in Oracle 12c SQL Developer
One of the significant features of Oracle’s SQL Developer client is the built-in debugger for PL/SQL stored objects: PL/SQL stored procedures, stored functions, and triggers. In this tutorial we...
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