DBMS_PIPE Connecting the Sessions Mustafa, 2023-08-182023-08-18 Hi, It has been a long time since I wrote something. It is summer and I was in a long vacation. Well I worked mostly of course but at least get away a little bit. In this post I would like to talk about PIPEs in Oracle Database. It is… Continue Reading
23c is Finally Here! Mustafa, 2023-04-06 Hello everyone, Well, it is just developer version so don’t try to install on your environments 🙂 My twitter is full of 23c tweets about these days. I also downloaded immediately and tested what I wanted the most for 4-5 years! “Schema Level Privileges” and I am so excited about… Continue Reading
Not Deploying is also Important! Mustafa, 2023-03-31 Hello there, I mentioned about writing a nasty ORA-600 error and here it is; One day I woke up and one my databases was started to raise some ORA-600 errors: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktfacht1-0], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [] there were also… Continue Reading
Unique Columns For V$Sql Mustafa, 2022-11-11 Hi, Until yesterday I was saying SQL_ID and CHILD_NUMBER is enough to get a sql child cursor from V$SQL and today I know I was wrong. Probably many times you needed the sql statement that a session is running. To do that you query V$session and find the session information… Continue Reading
How to Check Empty Space in a Securefile LOB Mustafa, 2022-09-272022-10-12 Hi, PS: please check last sql statement in this post for shorter and faster solution. first sql is for showing all information about the lob. Yesterday, while checking segment space usage data in a client’s database and some of the LOB segments were absurdly big. So, I want to check… Continue Reading
catcon.pl cheat sheet Mustafa, 2022-08-262023-04-24 Hello, Oracle uses a container database architecture permanently anymore, you should be familiar with “catcon.pl” perl file. Let’s say you have container database with 10 different PDBs and you need to run a script file on all of those pdbs (maybe even in root and seed too) so what you… Continue Reading
How to Convert LONG to Clob PART 2 Mustafa, 2022-05-062022-05-06 Hi, I just want to write a small post today. Some time ago, I shared a way to convert long to clob in a query directly:Â https://mustafakalayci.me/2020/04/06/how-to-convert-a-long-column-to-clob-in-a-query/ Even if this method works, it works really slow and anything slow annoys me! So, I want to share another method which is much… Continue Reading
Tables with Memoptimize for Read (fast lookup) Mustafa, 2022-02-152022-02-15 Hi, I would like to share my initial thoughts about memoptimized for read (fast lookup) tables in this post. fast lookup tables came with 18c and they are here to provide faster access to a table if you are using primary key with a equality condition. this is basically single… Continue Reading
Blockchain vs Immutable tables Mustafa, 2021-08-202021-10-26 Hi, as you know 21c is here for linux and some new features are (as always) pretty exciting. two of them are Blockchain and Immutable tables. Let’s explain and test. first of all, those are new features for 21c but they are backported to 19c. at 19.10 you are able… Continue Reading