Category: Oracle Database General

We are happy to announce that ORAdiff is live! ORAdiff is an Oracle tool that allows you to compare two Oracle Database releases and optionally incremental patch bundles. It reports differences in parameters, privileges, users and roles, reserved words, patch fixes, database homes, objects, and more. It can also be used to obtain an inventory …

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I had a requirement in one tool that I was working to find whether a given table column was power of 2. The easiest way to check would be using the LOG(2,y). If the result was an integer, the number would be power of 2. 2^X = Y     ->     LOG(2,Y)=X And …

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In ORDS, I was working with a GET PL/SQL Handler and I need to produce an output variable inside a JSON Object. My ORDS version, as of today, is 22.1.6. Example: BEGIN ORDS.DEFINE_TEMPLATE( p_module_name => ‘test’, p_pattern => ‘test’, p_priority => 0, p_etag_type => ‘HASH’, p_etag_query => NULL, p_comments => NULL); ORDS.DEFINE_HANDLER( p_module_name => ‘test’, …

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Those days, I had a requirement to create an ORDS endpoint that would call a dynamic SQL. Also, my ORDS endpoint was using a GTT and thus first I needed to load this table with some temporary data. Thus, I was left with no other option than using the PL/SQL handler type in my ORDS. …

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Below are the 3 views that will list the tables with identity columns in Oracle: USER_TAB_IDENTITY_COLS ALL_TAB_IDENTITY_COLS DBA_TAB_IDENTITY_COLS   PS: I know this post does not make any sense, but sometimes I try to quickly find those table names in Google and for whatever reason, Google Indexer can’t find proper websites. So I make this …

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