Today I missed Scott in my emp table. When selecting from EMP, Scott is not there. Gone… Ok, let’s recreate the scott schema. C:> sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 – Production Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 SYS@lsc02> spool scott.txt SYS@lsc02> drop […]
Month: May 2008
Microsoft Word
Word 2007 allows to write a blog post and I thought I must try 🙂 I used Windows Live Writer to add this comment
DITO
I never used Oracle Web Conference OWC, for security reason. Today I created one SR and read first time about Demo It To Oracle (DITO). This is basically a link CamStudio.org, which is a tool that records AVI file and converts AVI to flash SWF file. This is nice to have because you do need […]
10.2.0.4 aix
I just noticed 10.2.0.4 is out. I started downloading 1,916,781 KB !
How to cron?
RTFM is not the best answer … man crontab SunOS 5.10 Last change: 10 Nov 2005 User Commands crontab(1) A crontab file consists of lines of six fields each. The fields are separated by spaces or tabs. The first five are integer patterns that specify the following: minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day of the month […]
drop all objects
warning: the script below is destructive and not 100% safe update: it is unsafe to drop SYS_ objects, check for instance note 579399.1 A question was posted on the french forums of developez.net about how to drop all objects of an user. The drop user toto cascade; followed by create user toto identified by tott; […]
select distinct collect
I answered a question on otn today about distinct. Reprased, how to select distinct collection? select job, collect(distinct deptno) deptnos from emp group by job; JOB DEPTNOS ——— ——————————————- ANALYST SYSTPTJCzBffh0AjgQ59n0o3QCA==(20) CLERK SYSTPTJCzBffh0AjgQ59n0o3QCA==(10, 20, 30) MANAGER SYSTPTJCzBffh0AjgQ59n0o3QCA==(10, 20, 30) PRESIDENT SYSTPTJCzBffh0AjgQ59n0o3QCA==(10) SALESMAN SYSTPTJCzBffh0AjgQ59n0o3QCA==(30) 5 rows selected. select distinct collect(distinct deptno) deptnos from emp group by […]
Preserve code formatting
Hey, This plugin seems to do exactly what I am looking for, enable users to write code in comments. Preserve Code Formatting Please test here and give feedback Warning: this changed the behavior of old posts too, so I have to reformat all older posts to no longer use < in code 🙁
10.2.0.4/Unix
Unix users will enjoy this : 10.2.0.4 is available on Solaris and HPUX patchset 6810189 Still waiting for AIX…
Select bottom rows
Today I answered a question on otn regarding order by. Let’s build a different test case. You have a view that contain an order by. You want to retrieve the last 5 records. However you do not have access to the sort column. SYS@LSC01> GRANT CREATE VIEW TO USER_A IDENTIFIED BY A; Grant succeeded. SYS@LSC01> […]