Better safe than sorry…sanitising DB input

As Twitter learnt yesterday, you should always sanitise user input. I was amused to see My Oracle Support doing so….recursively :) The …

I think this summarises everything.

Why did this make me think of the OBIA upgrade documentation?? ;-) via I think this summarizes everything.. [Update December 18, 2013: The lady in the …

The mind boggles…

I honestly don’t dare click the “Did you mean” link ;-)

Tech Support Cheat Sheet [xkcd.com]

xkcd.com is one of my favourite comics on the web. It strikes just the right balance of geeky witty humour without being too smart-ass. I liked this …

Do you mean (pt II)

A follow up to my previous post about Metalink’s “Do you mean” feature, this one made me laugh: I shall miss this kind of thing when …

Metalink 3 - Do You Mean … ?

One of my little gripes with Metalink is its purporting to be helpful when it’s blatantly not. Here’s one: Now which is more likely, on …

OTN forum rant

I read and post a bit on the OBIEE and OBIA OTN forums. The noise ratio isn’t too bad, but a few things really get my goat: Not responding to …