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Muench writes,

that EmpView is executed without adding

The interview with Sushil Kumar by Caroline

FindByEmpnoEnameOrJob view criteria. What

If parts of your application do not need the about using just one bind variable, so that I

Kvitka (Oracle Magazine, March/April 2010,

functionality provided by entity-based view needn’t call the NumberOrNull(Strings) method: o20interview.html) was extremely insightful.

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I have shared it with several colleagues because

using a read-only view object instead.

( (Emp.EMPNO = :VarSearch ) OR

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Developer Framework (Oracle ADF) 11g, where

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jvsing@gmail.com level in the data model. I used two bind variables

articles for every Oracle feature that were this

concise, it would sure make life as an Oracle

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DBA a heck of a lot easier. This was just what

in Oracle ADF 11g. A read-only entity is similar that the EMPNO index could be used to find it.

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