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I recently thought of using Java's built-in BigInteger.gcd() method inside a PL/SQL wrapper to calculate GCD in SQLs.

And so I wrote the Java code and ran it on Oracle XE.

Things didn't go as planned.

After the post on models for storing XML data in Oracle and examples of binary XML storage, here's a detailed look at the rigorous and performant structured XML storage or object-relational storage.

Object-relational storage of XML data is based on "shredding" the XML content into a set of SQL [...]

The previous post on storing XML data in Oracle gave an overview of binary XML storage: compact, flexible, compatible with XML data with or without associated XML schema.

This post shows working examples of binary XML storage

1.1. without XML Schema
1.2 with XML Schema

Oracle provides an abstract SQL data type called XMLType for storing XML data in the database. You can create an XMLType table, or an XMLType column in a relational table, to persist XML data.

Different storage models are available in Oracle to best fit the nature of the XML data [...]

Oracle has built-in functions to convert relational data into XML format easily. These functions comes under the umbrella of SQL/XML, a specification that supports the mapping and manipulation of XML from SQL.

This post shows you how to generate XML from relational data using Oracle SQL/XML functions as building blocks.

Let's [...]

Oracle's UTL_MATCH package contains functions to perform fuzzy matching between two strings based on one of these algorithms:

Let's understand the algorithms and see UTL_MATCH subprograms in action.

Note: It is not necessary to understand the nitty-gritties of the algorithms to use UTL_MATCH. The deep dive is for [...]

In a recent project, a "shadow" table had to be compared periodically with its main source table to identify the differences between the two tables.

The nature of differences fell into one of these buckets:

It is well-acknowledged that attributes in the database should use the correct datatypes (numbers should go into NUMBER columns, dates into DATE columns, etc). Storing date values in VARCHAR2 columns is an open invitation for bugs and issues due to date format such as the one I'm about to [...]

A recent posting on SQL.RU asked why Oracle doesn't raise such errors like “ORA-00979 not a group by expression” during PL/SQL compilation. Since I couldn't find a link to the answer (though I read about it many years ago, but I don't remember where…), I've decided to post [...]

I've wrote in previous post

4. Next row piece can be stored in the same block only with inserts. When you run update, oracle will place new row piece into another block.

But it's not valid anymore 🙂 Since 12.2 Oracle optimizes updates too.
You can check it on 12.2 and [...]

Oracle 11G brought with it a beautiful new twist to range partitioning – the ability to create partitions on-the-fly rather than having to pre-create all partitions.

Hello interval partitioning.

Before Oracle 11G, DBAs would have to define all the partitions on a partitoned table and ensure there were no "cracks" between [...]

Recently I have had an issue with slow unicode migration of the database upgraded from 10g to 12.1.0.2. The main problem was a table with xmltype: we spent about 4 hours for this table(~17GB) during test migration, though all other tables (~190GB) migrated just for about 20 minutes.
We used DMU(Database [...]

You may know about Intra-block row chaining which may occur when the number of columns in a table are more than 255 columns.
But do you know that intra-block chaining works with inserts only? not updates!

Documentation says:

When a table has more than 255 columns, rows that have data after the 255th [...]

For those new to SQL, terms like INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN can seem like fearsome foes. As the wise say, understanding conquers fear. Behind those geeky terms lie concepts rooted in simple real-world knowledge.

Here's a quickstart guide to these two basic joins in SQL: INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN.

When querying v$instance or v$session[1] as a non-admin user, you might come across this error:

The error suggests that the non-admin user does not have the SELECT privilege [...]

Just as you sometimes need to find out your database name when connected to Oracle, you may also need to find out your database version.

Here's a rundown of ways to identify the Oracle database version using SQL and PL/SQL.

V$VERSION displays version numbers of core library components [...]

I recently upgraded Oracle XE from 10G to 11G, and found that none of the PL/SQL code using UTL_HTTP was working after upgrade. The code failed with the error:

Sometimes we need to transpose columns as rows in SQL. Oracle 11G onwards, this requirement can be easily implemented using the UNPIVOT clause.

A typical scenario:

Customer data is validated against a set of audit checks and the validation results are stored against the Customer Id as Y/N flags. The checks [...]

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Let's say a table contains multiple rows for an id. The requirement is to select only one of those rows, based on the value in a "type" column which determines the row's priority.

A typical example is selecting one contact number for a customer, based on contact types.

The possible contact [...]