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    Chris Saxon

    Continuous data capture

    I need to propagate changes on a few tables to an external system. I have to do it near realtime and ultimately it will end up on Kafka from my end. The solution target is Oracle 19c and needs to be installed to multiple clients on premises. Example problem: Let's say I have tabl...
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    Connor McDonald

    Get hashed password for old user

    I am normally using "SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('USER', 'User_Name') FROM DUAL;" to get the hashed password ( which I use to re-create the user as it was ), with SYSTEM user. This unfortunately does not work for users which have password_versions = 10G ( I am using Oracle 19 bu...
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    Connor McDonald

    Question about Concurrent Statistics Gathering and Maintenance Windows

    Hello, I have a question regarding concurrent statistics gathering in Oracle 19c. Currently, my global preference is set to OFF: SELECT DBMS_STATS.GET_PREFS('CONCURRENT') FROM DUAL; -- Result: OFF I can enable it manually with: BEGIN DBMS_STATS.SET_GLOBAL_PREFS('CONCURRENT','ALL'...
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    Connor McDonald

    Oracle View Becomes INVALID Intermittently Without DDL on Base Table

    All, I have an Oracle view built on top of a partitioned table. Occasionally the view becomes INVALID, even though there are no DDL changes happening on the base table. The view becomes VALID again automatically when it is accessed or queried, but this behavior is causing issues ...
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    Connor McDonald

    instnce vs database

    is Instances can exist without the database and database can exist without instance
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