Resource materials for Oracle PL/SQL programming
The Database: Application Programming course (PROG3040) offered to 3rd year CP/A students at Conestoga will be updated this fall semester in two significant ways: Server and client software will be...
View ArticleLooking for the Eclipse Web Tools Platform? Start here.
My Java Enterprise Applications course utilizes Eclipse as the development IDE, together with the Web Tools Platform, which includes Glassfish as the Java application server. Persistent storage for...
View ArticleSoftware for PROG3060 – Java Enterprise Applications
Students taking PROG3060 in the Winter 2015 semester may wish to install all of the various software components required for the course on their own machines. So, in anticipation of student requests...
View ArticleWhy the SQL Standard does not need another way to do GROUP BY
In a recent article, Lukas Eder proposed enhancements to the SQL Standard’s GROUP BY syntax to include support for implicit grouping attributes, such as that provided by the Cypher query language. I...
View ArticleConfiguration 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...
View ArticleConfiguration 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...
View ArticleConfiguring 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...
View ArticleConfiguring 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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