I’m writing this post so it can be found by googlers struggling with ORA-01861. Usually, ORA-01861 means that you missed something when using a date conversion function. But, here the other day I had created a table using some code generation tool, and I had accidentally declared a column with datatype DATE instead of NUMBER.
In an attempt to compare how long it will take to build a Docker image of Oracle XE (11.2) vs EE (12.2) on my Mac I ran into a problem. The building of XE failed, it complained that only 1023 MB swap space was available. I thought that adding swap during build with this workaround would do, but it turns out that with Docker things are different.
Queries from monitoring software like BMC are not supposed to be among Top SQL, but that was happening in many databases at one site. This may happen if the dictionary statistics are not updated, leading Oracle to choose the wrong plan. Document with ID 1328789.1 on MOS shows an example of this.
It is probably the developers' responsibility to run tests, but they may not be aware of features in the database that makes the testing easier. Here the other day an ETL developer asked for help with resetting tables after ETL-testing. But there was no need to create complicated scripts to do so. I showed him flashback tables so he could easily fix it himself and run the tests over and over again without any pain.
A colleague said that he had some tables that showed up in one tool, but not in another, I think it was Enterprise Manager/Cloud Control. This is easy to forget if you don’t work with non-relational tables regularly. What happens is that only relational tables are listed in DBA_TABLES or USER_TABLES, but all tables can be found if you search DBA_OBJECTS / USER_OBJECTS for objects with OBJECT_TYPE=TABLE.
Here the other day I was helping my son with his homework. His task was to create a simple data model, create it in MySQL, and make a simple web page to access the data. I thought that after creating a few INSERT statements on his own I could help him with demo data. Since he had decided to create a movie database I googled for some movie data sets and decided to use the IMDB 5000. You can download it from Kaggle.com (free registration probably required).
I just got started.
If you like the simplicity of Docker, but would like to continue with Virtualbox, then Vagrant is for you. After the conference in Dublin, OUG Ireland, I got this challenge:
Oracle Database 12.2 became available for download last week. This weekend I’ve been playing with Docker and created a container with it. The whole process is so easy, thanks to the work by Gerald Venzl at Oracle. You’ll find all the information you need in his blog post. Though the post is for version 12.1.0.2, the dockerfiles have already been updated for 12.2.0.1, and you can download it from Github using the link he provides in the post.
