Month: August 2009

Table-Driven programming is a technique that can make a program more easy to write or less easy to write, more clear or less clear, more maintainable or less maintainable.  It can improve a program when we use it appropriately....

I wish SQL had a simple copy command. It would insert a new row into a table with almost all the values of an existing row of that table. Last week, we saw how to obtain data dictionary information from an Oracle database. This...

I wish SQL had a simple copy command.  It would insert a new row into a table with almost all the values of an existing row of that table. How SQL and Meta-SQL Copy Now There are already ways to do this in SQL, but they’re...

Of course we can use arrays like tables.  What else can we do? Use Arrays To Initialize Variables An array can be much more than a table with different features and functionality.  It enables a variety of new algorithms. The...