TweetShareSharePin0 SharesYou may already have one or two free autonomous databases at OCI. Why then would you want a lower tier database offering, a database that is not autonomous? It turns out there are many reasons why you may want this. No matter what your reason is, setting it up is pretty easy. One thing before you start though, you canot stop it to stop spending money. You have to then terminate the service and later recreate it if you […]
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You ought to have oracledb in your tool chest
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesNo I’m not talking about the Oracle Database. It is extremely unlikely that you found your way here if it isn’t already to some extent your specialisation. If you made it here and have no idea what this is about, drop a comment and let me know your path here if that were to be the case. No, this is about Python. Even more it is about the OracleDB module for python. That capitalisation is mine, the official way […]
Longs in SQL
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesUsing long datatype is a problem we seldom face with new applications. But some old may still have it if they have not managed to convert to somethings easier to work with. But where I most often encounter it is in Oracles tables. The place that by far most often pops up its ugly head is high_value in *_tab_partitions. Just the other day a colleague was stuck on how to grab a portion of its content in SQL. “You […]