If you followed my Oracle Express installation guide, you are probably wondering how to connect to the Oracle database from inside our favorite IDE, Visual Studio. Not being one to exclude a group of developers as big as the .NET crowd, Oracle created a set of tools specifically aimed at making it e... [More]

As a .NET developer most of my experience in Database Land has been with Microsoft SQL Server. However, I started a new job two weeks ago and the project on which I'm working uses Oracle as a backend. It has been somewhat painful to make the switch, but I'm confident that the payoff will be worth th... [More]