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Jeff Smith
Personal blog · thatjeffsmith.com/archiveprogrammingdata
Jeff Smith writes ThatJeffSmith, a personal blog at thatjeffsmith.com about programming and data. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Oracle Database tooling, including SQL Developer for VS Code and where code should live, relative to the database or the application. The comments only point to related links and the product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Happier, faster development & administration of your Oracle Database using SQL Developer, SQLcl, Data Modeler, & REST APIs - from a product manager named Jeff.
What Hacker News says?
1 - https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15846_01/doc.21/e15222/unit_test... 2 - Fair enough, so is the same when using C extensions, nothing new when using standards with multiple implementations 3 - https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2014/02/how-to-start-t... (2014 tutorial on purpose) 4 - Just like a UNIX admin can do the same in a production server if the culture isn't there
Comment linking /archive/2014/02/how-to-start-the-plsql-debugger/
on “Code in Database vs. Code in Application”Submitted Angry Birds of database performance tuning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOur v1 is here, if you Oracle Database and VS Code, please have a look, and us know what you think, and would like to see going forward. Should be a fast startup, with zero pre-requisites to get going. I talk more about it here https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2024/01/announcing-the...
Comment linking /archive/2024/01/announcing-the-oracle-sql-developer-extension-for-vs-code/
on “Oracle SQL Developer for VS Code”