Adding information
Today, I struggled a bit with a simple situation. I had a table with a primary key and an additional field that was partially filled. I also had a secondary […]
Calculating CPU usage in Oracle
The performance of Oracle is determined by 4 factors: the CPU, internal memory, disk access and network performance. The latter, network performance, is only relevant if data are written or […]
Backing up in Oracle via data pump
Oracle has several possibilities to back up the data. One possibility is backing up via data pump. This facility can be used by the command line. Let us discuss three […]
Oracle only listens to localhost
It happens to me quite often. I install Oracle and it only listens to the localhost. In a few steps, one can get it to listen to the IP address […]
Encryption in Oracle
Oracle has a nice facility to store data in an encrypted form. This allows to hide data content from users while still allowing them to see the columns. If one […]
Masking in Oracle
Oracle has recently introduced masking as one of the facilities. Masking allows data to be hidden from users / or only display part of the content. Other users can still […]
Variables in Oracle
The question is simple: we have an Oracle query and we want to use one search criterium as a parameter. Let us take a simple example. We want to use […]
a view with security
One may implement security by creating a view. This view then only contains the columns that you would like to show. If one adds a filter, one may also limit […]
drop Oracle table
Oracle knows the command “drop table”. One may include this in a script where a table is first deleted (using “drop table”) and subsequently rebuilt with additional SQL statement. But […]
External tables in Oracle
External tables allow someone to store data in a file while these files are shown as tables within Oracle. So, we have a two sided object – on one hand […]