XMLTYPE column larger THAN 4000 bytes => ORA-19011
When you try to convert an xml file, which has a tag that contains for example one or more pdf files, into an XMLTYPE object, you will get the following error: ORA-19011: CHARACTER string BUFFER too...
View ArticleSearch database objects with a variable in oracle
Something I really often use is this select: SELECT distinct type,line,name,text FROM user_source WHERE lower(Text) LIKE(‘%’||lower(:search_source)||’%’) UNION SELECT distinct ‘column’ type,null...
View ArticleMy quiz on the PL/SQL Challenge
On friday my quiz was on the PL/SQL Challenge. Topic: “Guidelines for Designing Triggers: Avoid Non-Transactional Logic in DML Triggers” Yes, about “statement restart” :-) My idea about the quiz was...
View ArticleRead from anydata column
What should you do if you have an anydata column in a queue table and you don’t have any tool to read from it(sqldeveloper doesn’t support it natively)? I have written some code to extract all the...
View ArticleAll things Oracle
There’s a new Oracle source available: All Things Oracle. The aim of All Things Oracle is to provide a gateway to the wealth of information and material available for Oracle developers and DBAs. The...
View ArticleAll things Oracle: Generating XML from SQL
Did you ever needed your table data in an XML format? Well, it isn’t that hard… Oracle provides several ways to generate XML, in both SQL and PL/SQL. I wrote an article on All Things Oracle in which I...
View ArticleRed Gate Deployment Suite for Oracle, a valuable component in your APEX...
When working with APEX, you also need a number of tools to improve the efficiency of your work. It isn’t enough to just have the APEX IDE at your disposal. Besides the APEX IDE for the application...
View Article5 neat little features of the 12C database to remember
In this post, I’d like to introduce 5 of the many new features Oracle 12C brings to us, database developer’s. Of course this blog would be to long to explain them all in detail, so I will stick to a...
View ArticleAnother 5 neat 12c features for Oracle developers
In this post I will put 5 other new 12c features in the spotlight (in addition to the features of a previous post), that really makes the 12c an improvement against the previous versions of the Oracle...
View Articlewpg_docload.download_file : mime type not recognized by client
For a project we are currently working on, we needed to generate, and send a Word 2010 document to the client. The document was generated by a great PL/SQL document generation tool called Doxxy, and...
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