I am impatient to speak in the swiss oracle user group next month March 18, 2009, Baden-Daettwil http://www.soug.ch I will be presenting an XML session regarding selecting XML from the database. select xmlserialize(document xmlcol) from agenda; 12:00 Empfang und Registrierung SOUG Sekretariat 12:30 Stehlunch im Foyer Seminarraum Schottky 13:00 21. Ordentliche Generalversammlung der SOUG, […]
Month: February 2009
date or timestamp literals
Yesterday I commented on a post on the French developer forums http://www.developpez.net about using DATE and TIMESTAMP literals. A date literal is DATE ‘2000-01-01’. It is not possible to have a date literal at 6am, like DATE ‘2000-01-01 06:00:00’, the syntax simply does not exist. You can either use TO_DATE function, or if you are […]
Tuning query over database link
I just learnt from a colleague a very useful hint for remote databases. Over a db link, Oracle does not have the necessary statistics to take the right decision. Here is the test case : DB01 create database link lsc_link_2 using ‘DB02’; create table lsc_small_1 as select rownum x from dual connect by level