Windows 10 and the XBox One

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Jul 302015
 

Today (well, technically yesterday) was the release day of Windows 10. I could have waited until Windows update would pick it up, but I forced it by downloading the Windows upgrade tool by Microsoft. The upgrade itself takes some time to complete, please be patient. On my laptop the process was smooth, and after a couple of restarts I was greeted with “Welcome back Reginald”. Nice touch Microsoft.

As far as looks go, nothing much changed since Windows 8.1 except for the start menu that made its comeback. In a good way. I like it.

Windows 10 also makes it possible to stream your gaming from the XBox One to your PC. And it works like a charm. Good work guys!

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Lists as tables in Oracle

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Jul 242015
 

While searching for a way to find records in a table that best match what I’m looking for, I just discovered (Google is your friend) Oracle’s sys.odcinumberlist and sys.odcivarchar2list. Very nice functions to create in-memory tables.

SQL> select * from table(sys.odcivarchar2list('a',null,'b','c'));

COLUMN_VALUE
--------------
a

b
c

Never too old to learn new tricks….