Month: February 2008

18 is a nice age here. You can vote, you can watch movie or drink Gin-tonic. You also get married and go to jail ! Are you really 18 today? select add_months(date ‘1990-02-28’,18*12) from dual; ADD_MONTHS(DATE’199 ——————- 29.02.2008 00:00:00 come back tomorrow 😈 or check an old post of mine How old are you 😀

Sven’s Technik-Blog » Blog Archive » Oracle 10.2.0.4 für Linux x86 ist verfügbar… Patchset 6810189 is now available for Download on Metalink. select * from v$version; BANNER —————————————————————- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Prod PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Production CORE 10.2.0.4.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 […]

I wrote it already : Laurent Schneider » Blog Archive » TO_CHAR(…, ‘D’) I thought the one I found out this night was fun select to_char(sysdate,’DAY’, ‘NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=”numeric date language”’) from dual; T – 3 [edit]this feature is not documented, do not use in prod[/edit]

I first thought of adding Klingon. Well, finally I added Romansh, which is the fourth official language in my country. Ok, here we go : $ $ORACLE_HOME/nls/lbuilder/lbuilder & The Oracle Locale Builder tool is started. File –> New… –> Language You specify the language, the spelling for January, for Monday, etc… Most fields are mandatory. […]

In Oracle11g the alert log is an XML file. The old style alertSID.log is created out of the log.xml for backward compatibility only. However, some exciting enhancement are not noticable in the old one. $ tail -3 alert*.log Mon Feb 04 15:52:38 2008 ALTER SYSTEM SET recyclebin=’OFF’ SCOPE=SPFILE; ALTER SYSTEM SET recyclebin=’ON’ SCOPE=SPFILE; If I […]