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Carrot Ginger Smoothie
Tried today a new smoothie recipe:2 carrots1 cup pineapple1/2 inch ginger1/2 inch turmeric1 small lemon (or lime)2 cups water
Interesting Post by Jonathan Lewis
The opt_estimate hint is one of many that shouldn’t be used in end-user code and isn’t officially documented. Nevertheless – like so many other hints – it’s a hint that is hard to ignore when you see it floating around the code generated by the Oracle software. This note is prompted by a twitter question […] ...
Reset Mail Settings
Here is how to reset Mail for Mac OS at the original settings: ~ radu.parvu$ defaults delete com.apple.mail Enjoy!
Disable Mac OS X Gatekeeper
Ocassionally, there is a need to install an app created by a developer that is not identified by the security policy in place on the Firm's MacBook. Here is the short procedure I identified it works for me: in terminal type: sudo spctl --master-disable verify with: spctl --status open the application and quit it in terminal, type: sudo ...
Using @SQLcl (to be updated)
Taking the new command line tool @SQLcl for a first test drive.Plus Points- installation super-easy- a lot of commands interchangeable with SQL Developer- connectivity via TNS is easy to setup. TIP: if you do not have TNS_ADMIN environment variable in place, run show tnsin SQL Developer in order to get the location for the tnsnames.ora ...
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Oracle Extended Statistics
Introduced 11gR1 and based on virtual columns. Allows better selectivity.Condition has the be equality or IN-lists.We should use them when we have issues by an order of magnitude on the cardinality.Types: Column Group: Have to be from same table. Max 32 Expression: CBO does not know how an applied function impacts the cardinality of a ...
Oracle In-Memory Advisor
Oracle In-Memory Advisor availableFirst released in feb. 2015. Improved version released in July 2015: an updated version of the Database In-Memory Advisor is now available, more information My Oracle Support (MOS) note 1965343.1
SQL Developer Language Settings
Change Oracle SQL Developer language Occasionally, I have to work on Customer environments where the language is set to something non-ENGLISH. Here is how to quickly change that unwanted setting on SQL Developer setting: close SQL Developer edit the file sqldeveloper.conf found at location sqldeveloperbin by adding the option AddVMOption -Duser.language=en restart SQL Developer and ...
Change Account Status
How to change the account status of an EXPIRED account (without knowing the account's password)Requirement: SYSTEM or SYS access1. Identify the value of the passwordselect name,password from SYS.USER$ where name=‘USERNAME’;2. Change the account status by using same password:alter user USERNAME identified by values '< password retrieved above >';
Strange error when renaming a table
ORA-14047: ALTER TABLE INDEX RENAME may not be combined with other operationsWhen we try to rename a table or index name in Oracle, we use a simple command as followingALTER TABLE [SCHEMA_NAME].[OLD_TABLE_NAME] RENAME TO [NEW_TABLE_NAME];If we put into schema names to this command, we can deal with ORA-14047 error.This error raise when we put schema ...
