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    Chris Saxon

    How to update a user defined database package in production

    I have a user defined database package which is used quite heavily. When I need to update the code body, I will get several ORA-04061: existing state of package body "CS.PACKAGE" has been invalidated ORA-04065: not executed, altered or dropped package body "CS.PACKAGE" ORA-06508:...
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    Chris Saxon

    ORA-01034: ORACLE NOT AVAILABLE

    connect system password : password. i got following errors ORA-01034: ORACLE NOT AVAILABLE ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
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    Chris Saxon

    Explain plan estimate vs actual

    Hi, I used explain plan and got the following results. Based on cost and time, does query 2 perform significantly better than query 1? The runtime for query 1 is approximately 1 minute and 40 seconds, but it shows 07:47:02. Why is the estimated time so different from the actual? ...
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    Chris Saxon

    to_char a big number insert into database become scientific notation

    Hi, Tom. Please see below script. create table t0326 (id number, num varchar2(100)); declare v_empno number:=125854437665589038536841445202964995521300; begin dbms_output.put_line('v_empno -- ' || v_empno); dbms_output.put_line('to_char(v_empno) -- '|| to_char(v_empno)); i
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    Chris Saxon

    Pros and cons of DBLinks for application integration

    Hello Tom, A colleague of mine is a big fan of service-oriented architectures and middle-ware. His view is that dblinks are 99.9% of the time a bad idea and that you should go via some sort of message layer in order to pass information between applications. In many circumstances ...
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