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Tag: 19c
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….
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…
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…
