Tales From The Script (TFTS)

A little bit triggered by Laurent’s (almost nostalgic) post about “SQL*Plus pagesize explained“, my mind wandered of (a little bit) into memory lane.

In the old days, someone from Oracle, once started the TFTS script series, loosely named after the “Tales from the Crypt” movie and shows, by someone with a feeling for humor.

Tales from the Script, were a set of bundled SQL scripts to help (DBA) people with some of their tasks in the database, or to use them as a based for their own SQL scripting. A long time ago (apparently somewhere in the year 2002), I placed the scripts, which were bundled on a Oracle support / Sales promotion CD for Oracle 7, online. Oracle continued afterwards this tradition on Metalink. There they still can be found, and their successors, by searching for “tfts“.

You can read them [here] on one of my first attempts to create a web presence (nowadays with a lot broken links btw.). 🙂

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