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    Connor McDonald

    Read Data from CSV File Using External Table

    When I try to read data from a CSV file using an Oracle external table, I get the following error: ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout ORA-29400: data cartridge error What are the possible causes of this error, and how can I fix it so that the external table ca...
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    Connor McDonald

    how to get around Dbms_output limitations

    dbms_output.put_line has limitation of 255 characters per line. How can I get out of this limitation, so that I can use dbms_output.put_line to have 480 character per line
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    Connor McDonald

    Usage and limitations on PART_NAME parameter in DBMS_REDEFINITION APIs

    Hello Connor/Chris, Hope you are doing well. Recently, I came to know about the PART_NAME parameter for multiple APIs of DBMS_REDEFINITION package from the documentation. However, I could not find much about what kind of changes are permitted (and prevented) at partition level, e...
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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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