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• Having the surrogate key vs natural key discussion. Again. Ever get tired of doing the same thing over and over?

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• @pioro Congrats on the acehood!

Yea, I know. Quite the dramatic title. Work with me for a sec.

I’m pissed. Really pissed. Advance warning: I will rant now.

I forget the exact year but in the early 90s (I think 1993 or 94), I signed up for a novel service. Online email. Remember this is the early 90s. I was an early adopter even back then.

The internet was mostly character based and mostly used by universities, some larger companies and government. People using the internet were using email, usenet and ftp (and some crazies were using veronica, jughead, archie and gopher).

So what can I say? One of the phrases I hate most is “We’ve had problems with that.” I have seen that, or some form of that, question used as an excuse to not try new features, to not use best practices, keep a head in the sand, stick to Oracle7 features, etc.

As an example, in my early days with data modeling, I once created a new schema. It wasn’t a very big schema; probably 10 tables or less. I spent a lot of time doing the analysis to make sure I got the data structures correct. The ERD was sent around and got approval from everyone.

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When overloading a procedure or function it is the calling parameters that make the difference. The return type does not make a difference as far as the ability to overload. Generally, when talking about overloaded procedures, you will hear or read something like “You must change at least one of the parameter data types to overload it.” But that’s not really true.

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• @oraclenerd It's easy to use and sqldev will even set it up. Setup is working in 2.1 but it's not displaying my runs. 1.5 works fine.