There is all the more reason to use database PL/SQL…

Oracle have published a white paper entitled: “With Oracle Database 12c there is all the more reason to use database PL/SQL” it’s author is Bryn Llewellyn who is the Product Manager for PL/SQL. In this paper Bryn lists the reasons he hears from customers on why they are not using PL/SQL in the database and […]

Sorting an Oracle Nested Table

This article demonstrates a method used to sort an Oracle nested table collection from within PL/SQL . The example that follows was built using the Oracle Developer Days Environment and used the following versions: Oracle Linux running via Oracle Virtual Box Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 Oracle SQL Developer 3.2.20.10 The user developing […]

Getting Started with DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE

In this article I will explain what DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE is and give an example of it’s use. DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE is an Oracle Supplied package which was introduced with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It allows you to execute a SQL or PLSQL statement in parallel. At a high level DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE works by performing the following steps: Group […]

Queuing for Oracle APEX (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this article I described the steps required to first create a queue and then how to enqueue messages using server side PL/SQL called from an Apex application. In part 2 I will describe the steps required to dequeue the messages and how they may be displayed using Apex. The first step […]