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June 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Comparing two database objects for differences

Ask an Oracle practitioner what DBMS_METADATA is used for, and they’ll (correctly) tell you it used to retrieve the DDL

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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 2, 2022 Uncategorized

Cleaner DDL than DBMS_METADATA

Most of us with any kind of longevity in the Oracle world will remember the days when we wrote our

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March 10, 2021 Uncategorized

DBMS_METADATA – hitting its limit

I was helping out a customer today with what they thought was a bug in DBMS_METADATA. They were using it

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July 22, 2020 Uncategorized

DDL gets my goat

First things first. If you are not familiar with the term “gets my goat” then you can find a definition

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