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SMON_SCN_TIME and ORA-8161? Digging deeper
In the recent versions of the Oracle database, we’ve had the ability to convert between a System Change Number (SCN) and the approximate time to which that SCN pertains. These functions are unsurprisingly called SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN. The only potential misnomer here is that…
Kscope Sunday will be awesome
Yeah yeah I know. What kind of dufus cut-pastes a giant image into their blog post. That would be ….. me But the reality is, there is just soooooo much going on this year on the Sunday before the “official” start of the Kscope…
With and without WITH_PLSQL within a WITH SQL statement
OK, let’s be honest right up front. The motivation for this post is solely to be able to roll out a tongue twisting blog post title . But hopefully there’s some value as well in here for you if you’re hitting the error: ORA-32034:…
Advice on fragmentation and shrinkage
If you have performed some sort of data cleanup or similar on a table, then the deleted space will be reused by future insertions. But if that cleanup was the last task you were performing on that table, ie, you were not expecting a…
Generic data models … generic applications … ugh
There’s a hesitation to publish this example, because publishing it may be interpreted as an endorsement of this approach and it certainly isn’t. Over the years there have been plenty of articles describing the long term pain that typically comes from generic data models….
DBMS_JOB – the joy of transactions
This is a followup to yesterdays post on DBMS_JOB and is critical if you’re upgrading to 19c soon. Mike Dietrich wrote a nice piece last week on the “under the covers” migration of the now deprecated DBMS_JOB package to the new Scheduler architecture. You…
DBMS_JOB – watching for failures
I had a friend point this one out to me recently. They use DBMS_JOB to allow some “fire and forget” style functionality for user, and in their case, the jobs are “best efforts” in that if they fail, it is not a big deal….
