Min/Max on same column Mustafa, 2020-05-222020-05-22 Hi, Let’s do a simple trick. You want to get min and max value of a column which is already indexed. As you know if you have an btree index on a column and try to get a Min or Max value then you will see an “Index Full Scan(Min/Max)”… Continue Reading
Using “User” function in a scheduled Job Mustafa, 2020-03-172020-03-17 Hi there, I wanted to talk about a problem that I faced recently. Also I thought about the subject because this post is also related with “Session user vs Schema”. Whenever I use the term of “Job” I will be talking about Dbms_Scheduler Jobs not Dbms_Job! When you created a… Continue Reading
Sequential ID column without gap! Mustafa, 2020-02-062020-02-06 Hello, A customer is asking to you generate order numbers one by one and without gap! What an unpleasant request isn’t it? if you are not familiar to databases then you might think that this request is logical but it is not. So your customer asked for this and you… Continue Reading
How to store Yes No questions on table and BITAND function Mustafa, 2020-01-20 Hi everyone, you might see BITAND function is frequently used by Oracle on source codes. Did you wonder why? What does BITAND function do? as you can understand from the name, it does a bitwise AND operation on parameters. probably you know what a bitwise and but as a small… Continue Reading
Commit Time – Part 2 (On Commit Trigger) Mustafa, 2019-12-192019-12-19 Hello again, Not long ago, I mentioned about how to get approximate commit time on a table: https://mustafakalayci.me/2019/05/25/commit-time-for-an-inserted-row-in-oracle/ While I was reading some blogs and jumping from one to another, I came to Saibabu Devabhaktuni’n blog post: http://sai-oracle.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-setup-oracle-on-commit-trigger.html and I was literally shocked because I never heard something about this…. Continue Reading
CLOB size matters! Mustafa, 2019-07-312020-07-05 Hi, Many developer and DBA has an idea about the storing clobs. Basic rule is “if length of clob is higher tan 4000 then it will be stored in lob segment not in table segment” which is correct but sometimes misinterpreted! if you have a clob column in your table,… Continue Reading
Insert multi line text data using sqlldr Mustafa, 2019-07-052020-01-09 Hello Everyone, I just answered an OTN question about inserting multi line data using sqlldr and simply wanted to share it here (https://community.oracle.com/thread/4278952) so if have a data like this in your text file: Oracle PL/SQL 1,"this is two line data", 10 2,"this is three line data", 11 3,"this is one line data", 12 4,this, 13 1234567 1,"this istwo line data", 102,"this isthree linedata", 113,"this is one line data", 124,this, 13 you need to do some extra work to accomplish this problem. In my example I… Continue Reading
Commit Time for an Inserted Row in Oracle Mustafa, 2019-05-25 Hello everyone, This week, one of my customer have experienced a problem. They provide some Web Service to their suppliers and one of those web services creates some rows and then returns the response as successful operation but just after that, supplier queries the newly created those rows but they… Continue Reading
How to Get Your SID? USERENV vs V$MYSTAT! Mustafa, 2019-05-232020-07-05 Hello everyone, This is an easy question. How to find your own session SID and when you ask Google for it, you will find many answers. While reading some documents, I realized that some Gurus are using V$MYSTAT to get current SID: Oracle PL/SQL select sid from v$mystat where rownum=1; 1 select sid from v$mystat where rownum=1; I always prefer USERENV(‘SID’) context to get… Continue Reading