This is a far more opinionated post than usual. It is not meant to inflammatory, my goal for this post is to have something tangible that I can point to the next time an Oracle Developer thinks they want or need to “do” incremental commits. In this post an incremental commit is defined as code …
In an earlier post I explained how you can use C# to access a Twitter stream. In this post I will show you how to save the tweets from a Twitter stream to RavenDB. The goal of this post is not to perform a deep dive into NOSQL databases or the Tweetinvi API. Instead its to …
I can’t remember using the PL/SQL construct where current of in code I have written so along with my usual article style of how use to use this feature, this is also an experiment to find out if there are any other reasons to use where current of. The code examples in this post have …
The goal of this post is to build a prototype that demonstrates the auditing capabilities of Flashback Data Archive in Oracle 12c. Although the documentation mentions that Flashback Data Archive provides the ability to track and store transactional changes to a table I was struggling to see how this functionality actually worked and what audit …
In this article I will demonstrate a method where the INSERTALL statement can be used to insert rows into two tables that are related by a foreign key constraint. The following example was developed and tested using the Pre-Built Oracle Database App Development VM which at the time of this post used Oracle Database 12.1.0.2.0 & SQL …
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, …
