Welcome to the 72nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) is over, and Lucas Jellema of the AMIS Technology blog notes the OOW Content Catalog has been updated with most of the presentations available for download.
On his way home from OOW, Chris Muir of the appropriately titled One Size Doesn’t Fit All blog notes how OOW and the Australian Oracle User Group Conference and OOW compare with regards to 99% fewer attendees in AUSOUG Perth conference - from 45k down to 350. …

I do not know enough about the subject to answer this, but I know the folks that read this do.

From: http://mysql.meetup.com/137/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2280640

Hi,

I wonder is there any way to call an application which resides on the database server computer from stored procedure or trigger? Is the language of stored procedures and triggers only restricted by SQL statements and some arithmetic operations?

It is interesting that Oracle and MS SQL Server already have this functionality. In Oracle it is Java stored procedure, in MS SQL Server it is called “extended stored procedure” where you can call C++ routine out of your stored procedure. It is difficult overestimate the convenience of being able to do some processing triggerted by the record insertion event.

In this case the database could be …

On the forge:
Simple E-mail address validator

This stored procedure is a simple e-mail address validator — it makes sure the e-mail address is in the format word@word.word, and makes sure there are no special characters:
( ) <> @ , ; : \ . [ ] */

I allow ” because technically you can have “word”@word.com.

Folks can easily add to this snippet to make it fully compliant with RFC822 if they want. (I got bored and didn’t really feel like adding all that other stuff in. )