Table Functions: 9i Feature Worth Revisiting (Part 1)
Yes, they’ve been around for a while, but if you haven’t made use of table functions lately you might want to reacquaint yourself with this old gem. Table functions allow you to query the contents of...
View ArticleGet Oracle Instant Client Working on Mac OS X Lion
CJ Travis has an excellent and thorough article on installing Oracle Instant Client on Mac OS X 10.7. The gist: you have to install the 32-bit version. As a bonus, he tells you how to download and...
View ArticleTable Functions: 9i Feature Worth Revisiting (Part 2)
In part I of this series I showed a simple example of how table functions can be used to treat PL/SQL collection types as tables in a SQL query. We used a nested table collection type to which we...
View ArticleMy crsstat script: Improved Formatting of crs_stat on 10g and 11g
My crsstat shows a tabular format of CRS or HAS resources (i.e. Cluster 10gR2-11gR2 or ASM/Single instance scenario 11gR2). It has been a work in progress for a while. When I first started working with...
View ArticleVMSTAT Tools
As database administrators, we should have the ability to review and evaluate resources on the underlying hardware where our databases reside. Often this review is done during times of stress when...
View ArticleODBC Connection Fails for MS Access App on Citrix
(Original article on my Tumblr page.) I ran into an interesting problem recently when attempting to publish an MS Access application with Citrix XenApp. The application pulled data from an Oracle...
View ArticleDML Error Logging
Introduced with Oracle 10gR2, DML Error Logging allows you to make standard SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and MERGE statements behave more like the SQL*Loader utility, logging errors to a table rather than...
View ArticleOS X Software for Oracle Developers
New on my Tumblr blog: my list of OS X software recommendations for Oracle Developers.
View ArticleHugePages Configuration and Monitoring
I was recently working with a customer who was experiencing some memory pressure on their Linux database server. They were running Oracle 10.2.0.5 on Oracle Enterprise Server 5.7. The buffer cache was...
View ArticleMore OS X Tips for Oracle Developers
The latest from my blog: Fix for Page Load Issues in Safari 5.1.7 Easy Fix for High CPU Usage in SQL Developer on OS X Run Oracle Forms 11g Applications on OS X Lion
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