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May 13, 2022 Uncategorized

Version 7 was so much better…

Full disclosure: This is a rant post. If you’re not into ranting and pontificating, perhaps best to move along now

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May 12, 2022 Uncategorized

The Fractional Part of a TIMESTAMP. Be careful.

This discovery came in from an AskTom customer but I figured it’s worth passing on to any PL/SQL programmers out

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April 22, 2022 Uncategorized

Implementing dynamic partitions AND subpartitions

One of the cool things to come out of the partitioning option many moons ago was the feature known as

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April 19, 2022 Uncategorized

DBMS_OUTPUT … A (formatting) love story

What happens when you want to serenade your partner with a romantic ditty, but you’re a database professional as well?

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April 13, 2022 Uncategorized

My poor developers! PLSQL is going to be so hard on them!

So I started all of this by talking about how PLSQL is going to give you a performance boost, just

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April 12, 2022 Uncategorized

A little bit of PLSQL and a little bit of network

So after my post yesterday about PL/SQL being a no-brainer to get an easy boost to application performance, there was

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April 11, 2022 Uncategorized

A little bit of PLSQL can be a huge win

I rarely blog about PLSQL for a very simple reason. It quickly becomes like Halloween night because all the ghouls

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April 6, 2022 Uncategorized

DBMS_METADATA for INDEXES

Just a quick tip on using DBMS_METADATA that caught me out the other day. If you have a table and

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March 30, 2022 Uncategorized

Enforcing DEFAULT values

Handling default values on columns has been an age old problem that we solved in 12c with extensions to the

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March 28, 2022 Uncategorized

Block recovery a lot easier than I thought

I tweeted this snippet the other day because to be honest I was just overjoyed about being able to get

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