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Toad World blogs are a mix of insightful how-tos from Quest experts as well as their commentary on experiences with new database technologies.
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StevenFeuersteinTW |
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10/26/2006 10:47 AM |
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Life’s short and there’s more to it than coding. How can we change the way we write our programs so that we can spend less time in front of a screen and more time with family, friends and planet earth? Visit my blog for tasty, tight, tidbits of advice and code that you can put to immediate use in your world of programming. |
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Tracing, Testing, Debugging |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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2/23/2007 5:16 PM
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Test your code! Debug your code! Trace your code! We all hear about how we should or at least could perform these activities with our programs. And all too often the terms and usages seem to blur, and be confused. In reality, these three activities – test, debug, trace – are all quite different in nature and serve different purposes.
This blog entry o ...
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Here comes Quest Code Tester for Oracle! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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2/7/2007 11:26 AM
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As I write these very words, we are preparing to release the commercial release of Quest Code Tester for Oracle 1.5.
I hope that you have already heard about this new testing tool. If not, I offer a quick intro/overview ...
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An Ode to Toad |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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12/19/2006 3:47 PM
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I thought I would take a moment out of my busy Quest Code Tester development efforts (that is, heads-down coding, writing specifications, working with developers in Chicago, Columbus, St. Louis and Russia) to give thanks to Toad.
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Are errors positive or negative? |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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12/4/2006 10:30 PM
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You probably don't give this a second thought, but sometimes the question rears its ugly and bewildering head in the code you are writing – precisely because Oracle itself provides multiple answers to the question, right from inside its own code base. Let's take a closer look.
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PL/SQL Breadcrumbs |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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11/9/2006 11:55 AM
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When an exception is raised, one of the most important pieces of information a programmer would love to get hold of is the line of code that caused the exception to be raised. Before Oracle 10g came long, the only way to get this information was to allow the exception to go unhandled and then view the error stack. The following chain of program calls shows you what I mean.
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Aw, who cares about testing, anyway? |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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11/2/2006 11:28 AM
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All those big brain technoids always make such a big deal out of testing. Too many bugs in our software! Bugs cost money! Bugs make us look bad! Test your code before you give it to your users! Test your code before you write your code! Test your code before you learn how to write code! C'mon, I say, give us a break!
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Three Tips Most Excellent for PL/SQL Developers |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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10/30/2006 4:58 PM
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Welcome to my Toad World blog! I will offer on this blog a wide variety of tips and incredibly deep and surprising insights on the Oracle PL/SQL language (the object of my obsessive personality for the last 10+ years). I look forward to your responses and critiques. That is: I hope you will engage with these ideas and feel perfectly comfortable with disagreeing with me, offering other, perhaps better, i ...
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