Oracle

Oracle sows the seeds for SOA

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

An SOA (service oriented architecture) has the appealing allure for reducing costs and improving your company's agility. But, before digging up your existing IT roots, you'll need assurances there's a fortified and fertile ecosystem waiting to support you in those supposedly greener pastures. What's exciting about the new Oracle SOA ...

Simulating Oracle Synonyms in MS SQL Server

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Oracle Synonyms can be easily simulated in SQL Server by using Views. The following example creates a view that returns the CarID and CarPurchaseDate from Cars table. CREATE VIEW vCars AS SELECT CarID, CarPurchaseDate FROM Cars SELECT statement: SELECT * FROM vCars Let's create a view which is Sql Server version of Oracle's TABS synonym or USER_TABLES data ...

Oracle DECODE And T-SQL CASE In Microsoft Sql Server

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Decode function in Oracle: decode (expression, search_1, result_1, search_2, result_2, ...., search_n, result_n); decode (expression, search_1, result_1, search_2, result_2, ...., search_n, result_n, default); For example: create table example (x int, y int); insert into example values (1,2); insert into example values (1,3); insert into example values (2,4); insert into example values (2,5); insert into example values (3,6); Following query: select * ...