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XMLDB files,folders and acls
Another XMLDB post.....I've not been able to find a simple place i can look that shows me for a certain file/folder which acl is controlling access to it - it could be there i just haven't found...
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I hate longs
Now long's have been around since Oracle was running around in short trousers and while not really used by anyone any more they are still there in the dictionary. Aaargh. I guess Oracle have just...
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command line blackouts
We've been using blackouts more and more to prevent tickets being raised when we do maintenance work - as we tend to work more from the command line than from the cloud control gui we wanted to find an...
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When DNS doesn't DNS.....
The saying you learn something new every day is very true in my experience, some days it's small things and some days it's big things.Today was a day for a very minor thing about DNS - but quite a...
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Linking one apex report to values in another
I've been trying (for a while) to get some (what i though was simple) apex functionality to work - what i wanted was a classic report at the top of the page with a second classic report just below it....
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Some SQL Loader basics - datafile to column mappings
I've had cause this week to dig out some old scripts for sqlloader just to demonstrate some of the basic functionality of how values from a datafile relate to the columns they load into in the...
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Oracle talking to SQL Server over a normal database link?
Now with all my (off topic) posting about SQL Server these past few weeks it was inevitable that at some point i would want to create a direct link between Oracle and SQL Server for interfacing.Now...
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xmldb - gone but not forgotten?
During a phase of patching this week to 11.2.0.4 i came across an unusual error as part of the preparation stage. Running the utlu112i script as normal produced the normal output - see...
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More SQL Server basics - using STR
Another random SQL Loader demo - here i'm assuming that the input file is just one long string of numbers separated by commas - i just want to load this into a single column table so i can do 'stuff'...
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When you drop a schema by mistake......
Now everyone makes mistakes, some are easier to fix than others of course.This week i was overcome with an urge to tidy things up in our cloud control repository as we've had a few accounts where...
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Apex, XMLDB and connect by.....
I've been doing a lot of work recently with xmldb and have been frustrated by the lack of a GUI that did exactly what i wanted - i.e. give me a treeview of the structure and allow me to easily see the...
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datapump and unified audit
So the new year is upon us and I've not written anything for a couple of weeks - thought it was about time i blogged something.I've been looking further into some of the new 12c stuff in preparation...
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SQL loading data containing carriage returns
In a follow up to my recent post on using the STR directive with sql loader here is another example where the same technique is used to load data which has carriage return / line feed characters within...
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rawutl - an overlooked utility
While looking in $ORACLE_HOME/bin of a 12.1.0.2 DB i noticed an executable I'd never seen before and wondered what it did - so i ran it.....[oracle]# rawutlUsage: rawutl <option>where...
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Datapump, partitioning and parallel
One of our systems is reasonable large (~2TB) and has 4 tables that have over a billion rows each (and by billion i mean 1000 million - there still seems to be confusion , at least with me,about what...
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Pointless method of pfile recreation?
I've got a disaster recovery situation for you - pretty unlikely and pretty pointless but it again shows how useful cloud control can be....So take the case that in some strange turn of disastrous...
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VIEWS_AS_TABLES in 11g and even 10g ???
12c introduced a new feature for datapump which allowed you to extract a 'view' as if it were a table and then take this off somewhere else to import as a 'table'.Very nice.However you can kind of do...
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How oracle resolves name.........an analogy
Ever been asked what the hell it is you do at work and tried to relate it to everyday life?Here is my attempt to simplify/explain in 'laymans' terms what oracle names resolution is all aboutLets...
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The wallet, the password and the odd requirement
An otn question this week had the requirement to allow a client account to be able to run "sqlplus /" from a client machine and this would connect to a remote database server with no credentials being...
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Datapump out from all pdb's in one go?
Again inspired by an otn question i came up with a solution thats perhaps a useful concept to solve lots of similar type requirements.In this case they wanted a script to export out each PDB and...
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