Month: May 2005

We just received new PCs. Brand new with XP. Nice? Let’s see! As usual, I started my Exceed and logged on my AIX server. I tried to start the Grid Control Engine (opmn). Hard luck. Failed to start OC4J instance 🙁 The first problem is, when I installed the Grid, my old workstation DISPLAY name […]

One of the most common school exercice about recursion is the factorial. Guess what, I am going to do it in sql with hierarchies! I use the following ln property : x1*…*xn = exp(ln(x1)+..+ln(xn))) Ok, here it is SQL> select n, (select exp(sum(ln(level))) from dual connect by level

I just read today on sun.com that checking disk space in java will be platform independent in the java.io.File class before 2007, add a few years until it is integrated in Oracle. But I cannot wait that long, so I decided to write my own code with “df” on my AIX box. Ok, let’s do […]

Today morning I just received a question from a friend where I used hierarchies : > Let’s assume a couple of persons have bought some cakes togeher and they want to eat it: > > Create table cake_owners > (owner# number, > cake# number, > constraint cake_pk primary key (owner#,cake#) > using index); > > […]

The typical hierarchical query is you want to select your boss, and the boss of your boss, etc. It could look like select prior ename ename, ename mgr from emp connect by prior mgr=empno start with ename=’SCOTT’; SCOTT SCOTT JONES JONES KING I start with Scott and the hierarchy is built. I can use the […]

When I first saw analytics appearing in Oracle last century, I did not realised they were going to change my way of writting basic SQL queries. Some (Variance, deviance) are truely mathematical and still reserved for statistical analysis. Here I will try to describe ROW_NUMBER : Back in Oracle 7, I remember to have written […]