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    Chris Saxon

    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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    Connor McDonald

    Unique and primary key

    creating unique key and primary key on same column is possible? already unique key and not null constrains there on same column but still i want to create primary key without dropping unique key.
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    Chris Saxon

    Architectural Advice: Reporting via Pipelined Functions vs. Views in a 4-Schema SmartDB

    I am implementing a 4-Schema SmartDB architecture for an Oracle APEX project to strictly enforce the principle of least privilege. My schemas are: DATA_LAYER (Tables), LOGIC_LAYER (Private Logic), API_LAYER (Public Interface), and APEX_UI_LAYER (Parsing Schema). I am currently de...
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    Chris Saxon

    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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    Connor McDonald

    log syncs caused by user$ updates

    Hello , during the connection 'storm' (for example after restarting app servers , because of DB maintenance tasks ) i observe high amount of these commands: update user$ set spare6=DECODE(to_char(:2, 'YYYY-MM-DD'), '0000-00-00', to_date(NULL), :2) where user#=:1 roughly , 30 % of
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