Richard's Rant

Links for Thursday 13 February 2008

•  The project I am onis using an Oracle database as the data store.2 of the fields that we are storing are CLOBS (or Character Large Object). This is posing a few problems, as  updating the data is problematic, and you have to jump through some hoops to make it work. Below are a few links that I found that give some examples of how to deaal with CLOB data:
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-nov/o65odpnet.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/price_dotnet2.html
• http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/archive/2005/09/06/424513.aspx
• http://geekswithblogs.net/tmurphy/archive/2006/04/13/75108.aspx
• http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ramamohang/OracleDataProviderfor.NET212012005015557AM/OracleDataProviderfor.NET2.aspx
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cydxhzhz(VS.80).aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/C__and_Oracle.aspx
• An article on Behaviour Driven Development
• Terry Pratchett is indeed onof my favourite authors. This comment about a moles ares in this article alone says all there is to know about the humour of the man.