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    Timestamp with local time zone

    Trying to deal with timezone + DST aware datetime handling, but I couldn't get it safe and convenient at the same time. The almost perfect solution would be timestamp with local time zone , except the fact that it uses nls_timestamp_format (opposed to using nls_timestamp_tz_forma...
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    effort to change block size

    Dear Sir, Hope doing well.. Need some clarification on below points. 1) What is fastest way to change DB_BLOCK_SIZE from 8k to 16k, my DB size is 2TB. 2)Can we duplicate database as active database from standby database and snapshot database. Please comment on this query. Thanks
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    How to Clean Oracle Home Directories

    Hi, Recently while preparing to run the Release Upgrade for 19.24 I was doing a cold back of my ORACLE_HOME and I noticed that I had a ton of old .log, .trc, and .trm files. I deleted old files in the trace directory, audit directory, and some of the log directories. I also leanr...
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    How to get ROWID for locked rows in oracle

    Hi, I am carrying out an update on dept table with update query as - "update dept set dname = initcap(dname) where deptno=20;" As, I have not committed, row lock will be placed on the row. I want to find out the rowid of dept table locked from V$LOCK. Currently, I am not able to ...
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    DBMS_AQ.LISTEN to listen to a Single/Multi-Consumer Queue

    Dear Experts, Need your guidance/suggestions to resolve this issue: Part of oracle advance queueing implementation, we've to dequeue the message as soon as it has been enqueued into the queue. This should happen immediately without any manual intervention/scheduling a job. After ...
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