TweetShareSharePin0 SharesThis is an odd situation, most people are probably struggling more with getting REST to work than to get installed APEX to come up with the login. I encountered an odd situation recently where REST worked, SQL Developer Web worked but APEX did not. Many attempts to install and uninstall ORDS and we were still at the same situation. The error message we got was along the lines of “connection pool is a template pool”. Eventually I noticed that […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Is your database secure? Are you sure? Are you *really* sure?
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesA friend and at the time co-worker at Kentor AB found this bug. He found the bug and had the tenacity to track down and prove that it was a bug and not just a flaw in the logging mechanism where this first was indicated to occur. Today is the day when I can finally speak about a bug I asked for a peer review on over a year ago. I had to pull that blog post offline when […]