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Like me, in the future or for testing, you might need a database with varchar2(32k) support. Although most is explained, the current documentation is a bit incomplete regarding how to get a pluggable database environment to support varchar2(32k). Regarding CDB, PDB environments, to get this done, the following is described in the Oracle Documentation for

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A customer of mine run out of memory due to much server processes of dedicated connected client sessions. As an alternative I tried to explain the options between DEDICATED and SHARED SERVER concepts as an initial attempt/workaround for the client software problems. Looking around on the internet for pictures and or newbie documentation, I found …

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Vorig jaar heb ik behoorlijk wat vragen gekregen over of er een tool was, een methodiek, om BAG data van het Nederlandse Kadaster in een Oracle database te krijgen voor allerlei doeleinden. Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG) data wordt onder andere uitgeleverd door het Kadaster in XML bestanden waarin alle Kadaster gegevens zijn vastgelegd. Deze …

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Got a small question from Frits if I could help him make some XML data readable in one of the SYS.V_$CELL_% / V$CELL_% views. I have been a bit busy, in between jobs, to try to make some of those XML columns more readable anyway (for myself and others) so…lets have a go at it. …

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As promised, hereby the Hands-On Lab Oracle OpenWorld XQuery Update example statements. The following XQuery Update code will work from Oracle database 11.2.0.3 and upwards and is fully supported from this version onwards. For more information see some of the blogposts here on this site or the OTN XMLDB forum for more examples. The code …

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Just for my own reference Based on Tim Hall’s “dbora” post, but a little bit more to my licking, /etc/init.d/oracle (fna “dbora”). For info about the how/what/why, have a look a Tim’s post. Use “chkconfig” to install and set run levels in Linux. Use prio 97 97 so it will always start before or shutdown

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Currently busy for a client to install and configure Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for database and more administration across the globe. These environments were configured and setup by a different 3rd party so not always follow our wishes and administration guidelines. You can imagine that such environments are also a neat environments regarding learning curves

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Anton has a small but informative post on LOB handling across database links and avoiding a possible ORA-22992. I was not sure if XMLTYPE’s, CLOB based storage or Binary XML (Securefile) storage had the same limitations and/or in need of possible workarounds. So the best way to be sure is of course too just to

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People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combined with Google Earth. This post will zoom in on how to

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Oracle XMLDB Repository Events, IMHO, was one of the coolest functionalities introduced in Oracle 11.1. In principal they are a kind of event “triggers” that get fired during actions / methods on objects in the XDB Repository. One of the disadvantages of this functionality is that they are very “sparsely” documented in the Oracle XMLDB

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