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Steve Feuerstein here: There are two forms of code documentation: external and internal. External documentation is descriptive information about a program which is written and stored separately from the program itself. Internal documentation, also known as inline documentation or comments, … Continue reading →

This is the extreme limit for oracle dates: alter session set nls_date_format = ‘Dy DD-Mon-YYYY AD’ ; select sysdate, to_date(’01-JAN-4712 BC’,'DD-MON-YYYY AD’), to_date(’30-DEC-9999 AD’,'DD-MON-YYYY AD’) from dual ; Without encountering this error: ORA-01841: (full) year must be between -4713 and … Continue reading →

Oracle Developer Suite 10g 9.0.4.0.1 for Windows (forms developer) is not easy to obtain now, out of support by Oracle for a long time, but that version is still in use out there. So I have zipped both installation CDs … Continue reading →

Werner Puschitz has details of how to use ulimit and limits.conf to change maximum processes and open file descriptors. But for processes running from cron, I found I had to additionally make the below changes (this is on old version: … Continue reading →

Want to connect as a particular user but don’t know their password? You can temporarily change it and then reset it back, if you have DBA/alter any user privilege: SQL> select password from dba_users where username = ‘MYUSER’; PASSWORD —————————— … Continue reading →

Comments are used much less often in spfile than they were in old init.ora’s. Syntax for them is like: SQL> alter system set pga_aggregate_target=1g comment=’Andrew Fraser 13-May-2010 was 390m’ scope=spfile sid=’*’ ;

To see when tables (or other objects) were created, first change your date format to display time: alter session set nls_date_format=’Dy DD-Mon-YYYY HH24:MI:SS’; Then in Oracle SQL Developer, right click on the table or object in question, select ‘open‘, and … Continue reading →