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ORDER BY Clause in "Filter" field In SQL Developer
I was in SQL Developer today and discovered something by accident. I double clicked on a table name in the "Connections" tab and went to the "Data" tab to view rows of data. In the "Filter:" field I...
View ArticleOracle Reserved word as a Table name
I ran into a table today that was named GROUP, so I attempted to do aSELECT * FROM GROUP;Since GROUP is a reserved word in Oracle, I got an "ORA-00903: invalid table name" error. So how do I query the...
View ArticleAPEX SQL Workshop Insufficient Privileges Error
An APEX user was attempting to create a table in the SQL Workshop and received the "ORA-01031 insufficient privileges" error message. I went into SQL Developer and was able to create the table. So why...
View ArticleReserved Words as Oracle Column Names
I saw a post on the web asking if one could create an Oracle table in which a column name was an Oracle reserved word like "TO" or "FROM". Now, not that I would do this, but it intrigued me, so I...
View ArticleNULLs in subqueries.
I ran into a basic query today that perplexed me. I wanted to list all the values in one table (TABLE_A) that were not in another table (TABLE_B).SELECT value FROM table_a a WHERE a.value NOT IN...
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ODTUG 2010
Is this correct? I found a link with a session schedule for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 conference in Washington, DC June 27 to July 1, 2010. Is this accurate? I do not see anything on the ODTUG web...
View ArticleNo code changed, but now ORA-01841. Mistery Solved
A report that is coded in PL/SQL that has existed for years "all of sudden" started generating a "ORA-01841: (full) year must be between -4713 and +9999, and not be 0" error. Why and why all of...
View ArticleOracle's Database History
I have been working with Oracle since version 5 (1986). It is always interesting to try to remember when certain feature was added to the database. I found a link to an Oracle Magazine article which...
View ArticleOracle A.I.M. Retired
This morning I started doing some reading on Oracle Application Implementation Method (A.I.M.) 3.0. I ran across the multitude of documents associated with it. I remember back reading books on Oracle's...
View ArticleApex 4.0 Upgrade, Not Possible
Well I started looking at my 2011 projects and was getting excited about upgrading of our Oracle Apex version 3.1 to version 4.0 until I found out that Apex version 4.0 requires 10.2.0.3 or higher....
View ArticleOracle Forms - 2011 Conference Missing In Action (MIA)
I was doing some 2011 training planning and was looking at some Oracle-related conferences for this year. I noticed there are no Oracle Forms sessions at the IOUG Collaborate 11 and one "migrating off...
View ArticleHow Oracle got to where it is today
Here is a great presentation about the history of Oracle got to where it is today.
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Oracle Forms Builder will not start
Well I ran into an error that I found posted out on the Internet with no solution listed. I just wanted to post my solution in case someone else is running into this.Problem:"All of sudden" today when...
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Oracle Openworld 2011 Schedule Set
Yes!! I finally get to go to an Oracle Openworld. I have been to many IOUG users weeks before and after the IOUG conference split from Oracle in 1995 along with a couple ODTUG conferences, but not to...
View ArticleOracle SQL Developer Output Hints
I was just reviewing through presentations and papers from the ODTUG KScope 2012 in June and noticed a very nice little feature of Oracle SQL Developer that formats SQL output. There are hints that...
View ArticleWhat would you add to Oracle? response
Lewis Cummingham posed the question, "What would you add to Oracle?" in his blog. He purposed the ability to support multiple languages within the database. Thinking completely out of the box, I...
View ArticleIf Oracle's Cost Based Optimizer were a GPS, where would it take you?
Similar to the "If the CBO were a car, what would be it's bumper sticker?"
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Microsoft really does not like Oracle
Well I decided to install the "Oracle Developer Day VM" on my work Microsoft Windows XP Pro laptop to play around with Oracle 11g and APEX and got the following message. Since this was my work laptop...
View ArticleUsing External Tables in a Reltional Model in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
As of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) version 3.1.00.700 you cannot use external tables in Relational Models. When you import external tables from the Oracle data dictionary into SDDM you get...
View ArticleOracle SQL Developer: Switching between tabs.
There is a nice feature of Oracle SQL Developer that allows once to assign numbers to tabs and then via a keystrokes one can switch between the tabs like Windows ALT-Tab does for applications in the...
View ArticleOld Oracle APEX "ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string...
Oracle Application Express 3.1.0.00.32 I added some display items to a large page and all of sudden I started getting "ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small" when...
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Rows to StringJust a note about a powerful way to convert a column of values in a query into a coma separated list in a text string:select 'LISTAGG' fx, length(listagg(table_name, ',')...
View ArticleRecover Modified Oracle APEX Page
I was working on a page in an Oracle APEX application and wanted to rollback all the changes I made in the last 30 minutes on one particular page without losing all the changes I made prior to then. I...
View ArticlePlease remove my blog from OraNA
This is a test blog post to see if it is getting aggregated to the OraNA news aggregator. If it does, please post how to get a blog removed from OraNA.Still wondering how to get my blog off of the...
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