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... Chapter Date Data Types The third major category of data types is the DATE data type As with numeric data types, Oracle stores all dates in a single internal representation However, the format used ... TO_DATE function to covert character values into dates Oracle includes a set of extended date functions that allow you to manipulate dates, such as creating a date value from character representations ... the way your Oracle database handles your data Chapter Architecture The Oracle database is a relational database The theory of relational databases was first put forward by Dr E F Codd, a research...
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... possibilities for action Opportunities that weren’t there are created by the conversation, in the conversation, with each conversation generating a unique combination of ideas, perspectives, and possibilities ... interact The connections matter [As illustrated in Figure 4.4] organizations are like ecosystems We don’t know what the whole looks like, but this doesn’t matter What counts is relationships – interconnections ... and limitations This is tacit knowledge that helps them read the state of play and take decisions When a lot of what they becomes second nature, their playing (or dancing) improves It’s by working...
... appreciate that this group’s problems (or, for that matter, any group saying “What does this mean?” and asking “What should we do?”) are different You’ll also appreciate why I want to emphasize that ... of a song by the Dave Matthews Band [Ta-da!] What does this mean? “The space between” is created by conversations, grows out of conversations, and “exists” in the “middle” of conversations To ... balance sheet, formulate a competitive strategy, calculate the net present value of a stream of anticipated earnings, understand exchange rate movements, estimate the risk associated with different...
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... graduate students is their ability to crunch numbers To the extent that anyone is paying attention to climate change or population growth, whether in corporate public relations departments or at ... mythology But, as Matthew Crawford writes, with them comes “a kind of infantilization at work [that] offends the spirited personality.” To illustrate a “material culture” that promises to “disburden ... circumstances, tied to attitudes, values, and ideals For example, what doctors can and what their patients and the 203 204 Beyond Management nurses will tolerate and even be grateful for in the field,...