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Oracle Variable substitute - Synonym

I want to substitute a variable in oracle. The var is coming in via SQLPlus and is reference using &1 &1 in my scenario is the schema name - here's the SQL. CREATE SYNONYM ACCOUNT FOR &1.ACCOUNT; Assuming &1 equals ABC the synonym created is for ABCAccount, instead of ABC.Account. For some reason the period is removed. Any ideas w...

Insert and select from a table/array in oracle

Hi everyone, I have a pretty big sql statement which returns a list of id's. I need this id-list as base for other statements. Like this: open crs_result1 for ' select * from ... where id in ( select <ids> from <base_statement> ) '; open crs_result2 for ' select * from ... where id in ( select <ids> from <base_statement> ) '; open crs_...

Cascade Delete Query

I have three tables. Product, Company, Employee ProductId of Product table is foregin key for Company and CompanyId of Company table is foregin key for Employee So on deleting ProductId from Product table, all the related records in other tables should delete. But I can't touch schema(can't use alter table). How should I write the que...

Business Intelligence for small and medium scale companies

Hello gurus, I would like to know if i can get a case study for my dissertation with the above topic. I am in dire need of data I can use for the developing the data warehouse and that would help me arrive at a possible conclusion of using the BI application I would be developing.Many thanks for your audience. Regards, Tunde ...

nHibernate and Oracle Mapping Issue

I am using nHibernate with Oracle, using Oracle's ODP implementation. http://tiredblogger.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/using-oracle-odp-with-nhibernate-from-a-c-class-library/ This is pretty much working but then I got this error: Unable to cast object of type 'Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection' to type 'System.Data.Common.DbCon...

PK constraint violated with INSERT/UPDATE

Hello, i have a Dimension Table like this : my_Table pk1 Primary key pk2 Primary key pk3 Primary key col1 col2 col3 ... and using a procedure to fill this table with the MERGE INTO statement : MERGE INTO my_Table dest USING ( SELECT <columns> FROM <tables> WHERE <conditions> ) src ON (dest.pk1 = src....

how to calc ranges in oracle

Hi mates, I have a table defining ranges, e.g.: START | END | MAP 1 | 10 | A 11 | 15 | B ... how do I query into that table so the result will be ID | MAP 1 | A 2 | A 3 | A 4 | A 5 | A 6 | A 7 | A 8 | A 9 | A 10 | A 11 | B 12 | B 13 | B 14 | B 15 | B ... I bet its a easy one... Thanks for the help f. ...

Oracle connection prioritizer

Maybe that will sound odd, but I need to schedule priority on oracle connections. It goes like that: I have one main 'connection' that will pump data out of oracle, and it should be as fast as it can be. I have two other connections that should (ideally) use all oracle resources not dedicated to the first query. Is there a way to do ...

How can I use jaro-winkler to find the closest value in a table?

I have an implementation of the jaro-winkler algorithm in my database. I did not write this function. The function compares two values and gives the probability of match. So jaro(string1, string2, matchnoofchars) will return a result. Instead of comparing two strings, I want to send one string with a matchnoofchars and then get a resu...

What are the differences between using OLEDB and ODP.NET to connect to an Oracle database?

I have two small VB.NET applications that connect to the same Oracle database. One uses the OLEDB provider, and the other uses Oracle's ODP.NET. Should I expect to see problems with the OLEDB provider, as it's less 'native' to Oracle? Thanks for any help! ...

Does Oracle log package reading from IDEs?

I need to know if somebody can read and save to oneself packages from my database, Oracle specifically. Can I prevent it? I mostly worry about tools like "Export schema" of Toad. How can I know somebody didn't something like exporting my database structure? ...

Process optimization for large sets of data

I currently have a project where we are dealing with 30million+ keywords for PPC advertising. We maintain these lists in Oracle. There are times where we need to remove certain keywords from the list. The process includes various match-type policies to determine if the keywords should be removed: EXACT: WHERE keyword = '{term}' CONTAIN...

Oracle metadata to store column titles/labels

Does Oracle have a column metadata for storing its printable friendly label? Say I have a column named prodDesc. I would like to be able to pull a column label such as "Product Description" for use in end reports & web pages. I plan to utilize the column size meta data as well so that when I generate an html form I can dynamically set th...

Connecting to Oracle with PHP on IIS

I'm having all sorts of trouble... Here is the code I'm using: $c = OCILogon('user', 'pass', 'host'); I get the following error: PHP Warning: ocilogon(): ociopen_server: Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-12514 in D:\Inetpub\wwwroot**\oracle.php on line 26 Anyone know what the hell I'm doing wrong? It's PHP4, II...

Oracle: named java procedures, scoped by schema name?

If I do this: loadjava -u user1 MyClass.class loadjava -u user2 MyClass.class are the two class definitions distinct? i.e., I can install a new version into user2 without affecting the code referenced by user1? ...

clsql connect oracle database

Hi, I am doing some practice with clsql. I want to connect my oracle server hence my connection function is; (connect '("192.168.2.3" "xe" "username" "password") :database-type :oracle) when i hit the return, the following error message shows up. Couldn't load foreign libraries "libclntsh", "oci". (searched *FOREIGN-LIBRARY-SEARCH-PA...

How can I optimise this Query ?

How can I optimize this query if given the following query returns either all entries in the table or entries that match only up to current date ? btw: The Query is targeted to a Oracle Linked Server on MS Sql 2005 as an Inline function.. Do not want this to be a table value function.. ALTER function [dbo].[ftsls031nnnHades](@withExpir...

How to run PL/SQL program in Oracle10g for Linux

BEGIN dbms_output.put_line('Welcome to PL/SQL'); END; / I have this code in sample.sql file. How to run sample.sql? ...

Range for Oracle Date Data Type: "January 1, 4712 BC to December 31, 9999 AD", Does the range has any logic behind it?

Range for Oracle Date Data Type: "January 1, 4712 BC to December 31, 9999 AD", Does the range has any logic behind it? I mean the range has any historic significance or it has something related to programming and memory size etc. I am just wondering, why only from January 1, 4712 BC to December 31, 9999 AD. ...

SQLPlus command line script hangs when inserting records

Using sqlplus 11g on windows to run sql script on 11g database. Sqlplus hangs if insert line left in script. If I comment out the insert line, the script returns the records. Script exec time is < 1 sec when run in sql developer. I have tried to make the insert statment one continuous line with same resutls. using echo on, it hangs r...