dbms_metadata – Learning is not a spectator sport

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

Just a quick tip on using DBMS_METADATA that caught me out the other day. If you have a table and

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

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

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