2-3 days ago, I came across a code, intended to make delete faster. Just have a look 😉
. . . LOOP SELECT COUNT (1) INTO v_cnt FROM table1 WHERE ROWNUM < 2; IF v_cnt = 0 THEN EXIT; END IF; DELETE FROM table1 WHERE ROWNUM < 1000; COMMIT; v_cnt := 0; END LOOP; . . .
Today one of my colleague was working on a simple PL/SQL procedure. Based on some logic it was returning count(*) from all_tab_columns for few tables. It gave count incorrectly for one table out of around fifty in total. He just hard coded the table name and ran it but again it showed count as zero.
Then he took the code out of procedure and wrote it in DECLARE, BEGIN, END and after running it showed the correct count. But ran as database procedure it always shows incorrectly.
Finally just as hit and trial, he gave SELECT on the TABLE to database user [Table was in different schema], used to run the procedure and everything was ok. Isn’t it bit stupid 🙂
Update: Well, it happens for a reason. Nigel Thomas pointed out in the comment. The reason is that privileges granted to a role are not seen from PL/SQL stored procedures. You need to give direct grant to the user for this or another method is to define the procedure or package with invoker rights.
Thanks Nigel 🙂
From Eddie’s blog I got a link to 3 posts on Regular Expressions on OTN written by CD. Wonderful stuff. Check out.
& Thanks CD…wonderful work buddy !
A small tip, I read on OTN about spooling to a .xls (excel) file:
It goes like this
set feed off markup html on spool onspool c:\salgrade.xls select * from salgrade; spool offset markup html off spool off
And the xls it makes shows up like:
Sidhu
Found a very interesting article on Dizwell’s blog. It was about keeping history of the SQL commands in SQL Plus on Linux. It is almost very simple. Just need to download a small utility called rlwrap from here. Its a tar.gz file. Download it, un-tar using
tar -xvf rlwrap-0.28.tar.gz
It will create a directory with the same name. cd to the directory and run
./configure
Now do
make install
(I was logged in as oracle user, then did su, but it gave some errors, finally I logged in as root and it worked fine)
Now what is left to be done is make an alias for sqlplus as
alias sqlplus='rlwrap sqlplus'
Using up/down arrows, commands can be scrolled up and down just like windows. Have a look at full article here.
Cheers
Sidhu
