Hi, Lately, I started to see many developer uses timestamp types (like timestamp or timestamp with time zone) wrong especially in time arithmetic. So as a short reminder, adding and subtracting numbers to/from a DATE value will add/subtract number of days: Basically that is all if you use add and subtract of course we
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Frequent and Fast Refresh Materialized Views has a Big Problem!
Hi, While I was checking V$SQL_PLAN view for a whole different reason, I realized that some of the cursors has incredibly high child cursors. I started to dig and finally I find the problem. My customer have a few frequently fast refreshed materialized views. One of them is refreshed every 10 seconds (you might say
CSV Data in Clob to Columns Using Select
Hi, Thanks to one of my customers, I am dealing with csv data in clob lately a lot. so they asked me if I can get a csv data in a clob column as separated columns using select statement. They wanted to show this data on their applicaitons. I suggested different methods but they said
Is It Possible to Change SQL Statement in the Database?
YES! Hi, today I want to write about something which has been asked for many times to me. Let’s say you have an application and it is running very poorly designed sql statements in your database and you are really bored having fights with development teams to ask a change about the sql. Well, in
V$SqlStats vs V$SqlStats_Plan_Hash, different columns?
Hi there, V$SQLSTATSis a beautiful view for information about sql statements. you might say v$sql has that information too which is correct but V$SQLSTATSis much more faster than v$sql and keeps data about sql statements for a longer time than v$sql. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/refrn/V-SQLSTATS.html However, the V$SQLSTATS view differs from V$SQL and V$SQLAREA in that it is faster, more scalable, and has a
Performance Gain of NOCOPY Parameters
Hi, Almost every Oracle database uses PLSQL codes like packages/procedures/functions etc. Complex systems with complex codes pass many arguments (parameters) many times between plsql objects. Passing parameters might be the most executed operations in a database. So how well do you pass your parameters? I assume you know about types of parameters like IN or
Oracle Join Methods
Hi, Actually I won’t explain anything today. I will just share a video by Chris Saxon who is also from askTom team. Great guy, you should also follow him. So he made a great, so simple and explanatory video that I have ever seen. Many thanks to Chris. Please watch.
Code Base Access Control & Invoker’s Right
Hi, So you might have already used some “invoker’s right” functions. As you know when you create a procedure/package/function and grant execute on them to other users, whenever other user run those codes, they will run with your privilege. Sometimes you might need those objects to run with “invoker’s right”. that way you make sure
Native Compilation of a PLSQL Object
Hi, you’ve probably heard about “NATIVE” compilation about plsql objects. I wanted to demonstrate how it is work and whether it really does matter or not. By default Oracle compiles every plsql object as “INTERPRETED” which means, your plsql code transform into a intermediate form which interpreted every time when you run it. This part
Parsing CSV Lines and columns in PLSQL
Hi, Yesterday, one of my customers asked for help to tune a procedure and when I investigated the problem I find out that their method to get a specific “column” value in csv file was the problem. So we discuss the situation and adopt a new version of the code. While doing that I just