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Statistics on Object tables
Way back in Oracle 8.0 we introduced the “Object-Relational” database, which was “the next big thing” in the database community back then. Every vendor was scrambling to show just how cool their database technology was with the object-oriented programming paradigm. Don’t get me wrong…
MERGE and ORA-30926
Just a quick blog post on MERGE and the “unable to get a stable set of rows” error that often bamboozles people. This is actually just the script output from a pre-existing YouTube video (see below) that I’ve already done on this topic, but…
The death of UTL_FILE – part 2
I wrote a post a while back call “The Death of UTL_FILE”, and probably because of it’s click-bait title I got lots of feedback, so I’m back to flog that horse . Seriously though, I stand behind my assertion in that post, that the…
Use the features available!
Advance warning: This post is a just another normal Friday morning rant. If you’re not interested in my pontificating, move along…nothing else to see here Sometimes you can’t make use of a facility that you normally would, and you have to substitute in something…
DBMS_JOB is an asynchronous mechanism
One of the very cool things about DBMS_JOB is that a job does not “exist” as such until the session that submitted the job is commits the transaction. (This in my opinion is a critical feature that is missing from the DBMS_SCHEDULER package which,…
Work Life Travel balance
I thought about writing a post on juggling work commitments, travel with my job and time at home with children and family. And then I came across this post from community friend Robin Moffatt. https://rmoff.net/2019/02/08/travelling-for-work-with-kids-at-home/ And … well … it’s exactly the thoughts, sentiments…
LISTAGG hits prime time
It’s a simple requirement. We want to transform this: SQL> select deptno, ename 2 from emp 3 order by 1,2; DEPTNO ENAME ———- ———- 10 CLARK 10 KING 10 MILLER 20 ADAMS 20 FORD 20 JONES 20 SCOTT 20 SMITH 30 ALLEN 30 BLAKE…
Patch conflicts
My last post was about patching my home databases from 18.3 to 18.5 on Windows, and how I encountered a patch conflict when I tried to patch the JVM. I thought I’d give a little bit of info for anyone who runs into patch…
From Database 18.3 to 18.5 (on Windows)
Contrary to wild rumours on the internet, it was not a fear of the number 13 that led to a numbering jump from version 12c to version 18c. The jump was part of our new, more flexible release mechanism so that we can get…
EXPORT not GATHER with DBMS_STATS
Just a short post today on something that came in as a question for the upcoming Office Hours session which I thought could be covered quickly in a blog post without needing a lot of additional discussion for which Office Hours is more suited…
My APEX was fine and then it wasn’t
I got a nasty shock this morning when I fired up my local Application Expression installation. It had been working fine and all of a sudden…just dead. I sounded like all of those family members that as I.T practitioners we have to deal with…
2018-what grabbed your attention
Here are the blog posts that you hit on most this year, with the most viewed entry on top. Unsurprisingly it is about the release of 18c, but interestingly the ORA-14758 and the Active Sessions post have come up again from last years list,…
