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	<title>The Schema Czar</title>
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	<description>Experienced thinking on designing, building, supporting, and maintaining software - database software and otherwise.</description>
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		<title>Recognizing the obvious&#8230;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me - but hardly unusual - when information is crammed into a user interface with no reference or explanation.  The yellow roads on my nav app could be promising alternate routes, or they could lead to Oz - I can't find out.  Customer support doesn't know why.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.schemaczar.com/2010-07/recognizing-the-obvious/</link>
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		<title>PL/SQL Exceptions &#8211; a primer demonstration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So &#8211; my co-worker wanted to learn about PL/SQL exceptions. Here you go! I have put comments at the end by way of discussion. set serveroutput on &#60;&#60;DEMO_AND_TEST_EXCEPTIONS&#62;&#62; DECLARE MYOWNNODATAFOUND EXCEPTION; --ERROR CAUSED BY PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (MYOWNNODATAFOUND, -1403); -- Cannot rename Oracle native exceptions if their numbers are already named -- in DBMS_STANDARD, e.g., ORA-01403 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.schemaczar.com/2010-07/plsql-exceptions-a-primer-demonstration/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye, Kitty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple's recent moves with its development platforms shows that OSX is dead.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.schemaczar.com/2010-06/goodbye-kitty/</link>
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		<title>Bad code often has good lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like everyone else, I began my career &#8220;adding new capabilities&#8221; on other people&#8217;s code &#8211; I did &#8220;maintenance.&#8221; Like everyone else, I never admitted I was doing something so humble at my job.  How I hated a lot of the code I had to slog through!  But a funny thing happened to me on the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.schemaczar.com/2010-05/bad-code-often-has-good-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Letters from the Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an unusual juxtaposition a few weeks ago, a reflection worth sharing about doing design and code reviews. My wife was interviewing for a job to be a book editor, and among her interview topics were: how do you get an author off a bad path? How do you get the poor sections back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.schemaczar.com/2010-05/letters-from-the-editor/</link>
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