TweetShareSharePin0 SharesYes, I admit it. I am sometimes not at all as structured as I would like to think. Recently I had worked on a query that had taken me many hours to get just right. When I was done I celebrated with a coffee break (I’m a Swede after all) and after it I started working on other pressing issues. A couple of weeks later that query is desperately needed as the same test needs be be done again and […]
Month: March 2020
The bug that wasn’t
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesThis is a short update to the presumed bug I wrote about recently in this post. After a few back and forth with Oracle support it turns out this is a well-known (to them) effect of using dbms_random in SQL. The base for this seems to be a bug report in 10g that was declared “not a bug”. You can read the bug report on MOS. It is also covered in this doc that references the same bug. It turns out that a […]
Moving or starting with Visual Code
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesIf you live your life in an editor writing code or configuration files, you need Visual Code in your life. Yes it is a Microsoft product and possibly surprising to use in environments that are not heavy on Microsoft or even using Windows operating system. But the truth is that it may well be the best thing to ever come out of Microsoft. If you read that as a diss of Microsoft, you do not appreciate how much I […]
Bug with prefactoring and nondeterministic SQL
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesSometimes the results of a SQL is not at all what you expected. Most of the time it is a simple error you’ve made. Very rarely is it an issue that after hours of looking at it still looks like SQL does something wrong, But it still happens. This post is about one such situation that occurred last week. If you read the last blog post, you’ll recognize some of this. It turned up when I looked at transforming […]