2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 52,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 12 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

GoldenGate error OGG-01755 SQL error: OCI Error 26,723 = ORA-26723

I was trying to register extract  OGG v 11.2 on one of my dev servers GGSCI (tpadldb10.gratiscard.com) 1> dblogin  userid srvegate password xxxxx Successfully logged into database.  GGSCI (tpadldb10.gratiscard.com) 2> register extract testext database and run into error above :  OGG-01755  SQL error: OCI Error 26,723. See Extract user privileges in the Oracle GoldenGate for … Read more

Oracle GoldenGate 11.2

OGG 11.2 offers  integrated capture mode. Extract integrates with database log mining server to receive change data in LCR format . Oracle is utilizing Streams more and more .. Oracle database must be Oracle 11.2.0.3 with the patch for bug 13560925. Here is example how to change extract more to integrated and back to classic … Read more

Index Monitoring

For those not familiar with it, index monitoring is Oracle's way to track whether an index is being used, letting you know if it is needed. Two things to keep in mind: 1) It doesn't always mark an index as used even if it is used. If it isn't used in an execution plan but … Read more

Querying multiple rows from dual

By Granville Bonyata Sometimes it’s useful to have a query that always returns a certain number of rows, such as a report that returns one row for every day of the month. Using DUAL and CONNECT BY allows you to return as many rows as needed. For instance, this query returns one row for every … Read more