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Connor McDonald on SQL and the Oracle Database
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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…
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….
Partition loading in direct mode
Direct mode insert using the APPEND hint is a cool piece of technology that lets you load bulk data into a table very quickly and efficiently. Obviously there are a number of implications of doing so which you can read about here, but the…
Raw partitions?
Here’s a quirky one for you. It can happen when you are dealing with a partitioned table where the partition key is defined as RAW. To be honest, I really can’t think of a reason why you ever want a table with a raw…
Grab all the DDL
I posted a video a couple of days ago showing a trigger mechanism to customize the capture of DDL that is issued on your database. The aim here is to be more generous with letting developers execute DDL on their Development databases, whilst still…
Application Express 19.1
AskTOM moved to Application Express 19.1 without any major issues last weekend. That in itself is a nice endorsement for APEX, given that the AskTOM application dates back nearly 20 years to 2001, and predates even the existence of APEX. The only fix that…
Long running scheduler jobs
One of the nice things about the job scheduler in the Oracle database is the easily interpreted interval settings you can apply for job frequency. The days of cryptic strings like “sysdate+0.000694444” when all you really wanted to say was “Just run this job…
