One of the popular exercises when learning a new language is to develop a FizzBuzz program. This is where you print out the all the numbers from 1 to 100 except if a number is a multiple of 3 you print out Fizz and if the number is a multiple of 5 you print out […]
I was recently working through Chapter 9 of the 12c Database 2 Day Developer’s Guide and found the following bug in the sample code. Here is the original code: FUNCTION add_department ( p_department_name IN departments.department_name%TYPE, p_manager_id IN departments.manager_id%TYPE ) RETURN departments.department_id%TYPE IS l_department_id departments.department_id%TYPE; BEGIN INSERT INTO departments ( department_id, department_name, manager_id ) VALUES ( departments_sequence.NEXTVAL, […]
Oracle 12c introduced the Identity Column. You can find out more about this feature in the new features guide and within the CREATE TABLE documentation. In this article I will use Tom Kyte’s run stats utility to compare the performance of the IDENTITY column with the explicit use of a sequence object. The script below will be used to […]
….is that when you really need to, it allows you to turn up your applications instrumentation to 11. A 30 second PL/SQL Conditional Compilation overview PL/SQL Conditional compilation was introduced with Oracle Database 10gR2. The official documentation explains how to use the Conditional Compilation constructs but doesn’t give too many use cases. Fortunately the Oracle White Paper […]
The PL/SQL Compiler warning “PLW-06009: procedure “string” OTHERS handler does not end in RAISE or RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR” was introduced with 11g release 1. It’s purpose is to alert you to the fact that you have a WHEN OTHERS exception handler and the last statement within it doesn’t contain a RAISE or a RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR statement. The first example […]
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