The OTN (APEX) Forum

I decided to start posting in the forums more often again. As I didn’t want to loose all my posts for the “X-ed” time, I created a new login with an email I’ll normally never loose (my Apex Evangelists (site no longer online) one).

Did you know you can’t change your email address in the OTN forums? Maybe that’s not a real problem, as you can still login into the forums, even when you don’t have the email address anymore. The only thing you lose is getting a message when somebody replies to your thread. But even for that a workaround is available (watch user). Nevertheless, I decided to start from scratch, as I found it more clean.

I searched for my other logins and decided to put them in this post, for myself and for others, if they would be interested in my earlier posts:

Jan 10, 2001: My first (?I thought of having another account from the year 2000, but couldn’t find it?) login in the OTN Forums, at that time I was working at Oracle as a consultant. I posted 33 messages with the user dgielis.
Oct 1, 2003: My first APEX question in the forums, at that time I used HTML DB 1.4 on an 9iR2 DB.
Feb 14, 2005: My second user dgielis_ in the OTN forums. I posted 78 messages with this user.
Nov 13, 2006: My third user dgielis__ in the OTN forums. I posted 17 messages with this user.
April 21, 2007: My (hopefully) last user in the OTN forums: Dimitri Gielis@AE

With the APEX SIG we talked about mining the forum… To get it started, I’ll try to do every week a post with the funniest/most interesting topics of the APEX forum in which I participated.