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    Chris Saxon

    how should I check effect of using ‘return as locator’ if its possible to track changes through column size after data insert?

    hi, Refer to object-relational-developers-guide/Nested Table Locators ‘For large child sets, the parent row and a locator to the child set can be returned so that the child rows can be accessed on demand; the child sets also can be filtered. Using nested table locators enables yo...
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    Running a procedure in parallel mode

    Hi folks, I wrote a procedure that downloads spatial information for power lines via WFS from a web site and merges this into an existing table in my ADB. I wrote it in a way that it should use the parallel mode (pipelined table function, no triggers, jala jala...). This works gr...
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    Default storage settings for partitions

    How can you make an oracle table, index or partition 'lose' its storage definition and revert to tablespace defaults... I have a 'legacy' table in production that was built with storage parameters inherited from the 'consolidate storage' option on the old export utility (exp). It...
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    Chris Saxon

    Ternary Operator in SQL - PL/SQL

    Hello i just wanted to ask you the (CASE WHEN THEN END;) is the ternary operator in oracle sql - pl/sql? thanks. I provided some example code above of java and pl/sql thanks!. /*plsql code*/ DECLARE myage NUMBER := 28; statusage VARCHAR(200) := NULL; BEGIN statusage := CASE WHEN ...
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    Chris Saxon

    Numeric sorting inside strings

    This query: with T1 as ( select 'A4' from dual union select 'A3' from dual union select 'A100' from dual union select 'A20' from dual ) select * from t1; produces the normal sort: A100 A20 A3 A4 In recent Oracle versions ( 19 and later ) is there a
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