Category Archive: Howto

Feb 21 2013

HOWTO – Oracle Shared Server Setup

A customer of mine run out of memory due to much server processes of dedicated connected client sessions. As an alternative I tried to explain the options between DEDICATED and SHARED SERVER concepts as an initial attempt/workaround for the client software problems. Looking around on the internet for pictures and or newbie documentation, I found …

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Jan 21 2013

Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen – Het importeren van Kadaster BAG data in een Oracle Database

Vorig jaar heb ik behoorlijk wat vragen gekregen over of er een tool was, een methodiek, om BAG data van het Nederlandse Kadaster in een Oracle database te krijgen voor allerlei doeleinden. Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG) data wordt onder andere uitgeleverd door het Kadaster in XML bestanden waarin alle Kadaster gegevens zijn vastgelegd. Deze …

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Dec 20 2012

HOWTO: Viewing XML data in V_$CELL_% storage cell SYS views

Got a small question from Frits if I could help him make some XML data readable in one of the SYS.V_$CELL_% / V$CELL_% views. I have been a bit busy, in between jobs, to try to make some of those XML columns more readable anyway (for myself and others) so…lets have a go at it. …

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Oct 02 2012

OOW 2012 – XQuery Update (HOL)

As promised, hereby the Hands-On Lab Oracle OpenWorld XQuery Update example statements. The following XQuery Update code will work from Oracle database 11.2.0.3 and upwards and is fully supported from this version onwards. For more information see some of the blogposts here on this site or the OTN XMLDB forum for more examples. The code …

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Sep 13 2012

oracle in /etc/init.d

Just for my own reference Based on Tim Hall’s “dbora” post, but a little bit more to my licking, /etc/init.d/oracle (fna “dbora”). For info about the how/what/why, have a look a Tim’s post. Use “chkconfig” to install and set run levels in Linux. Use prio 97 97 so it will always start before or shutdown …

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Jul 02 2012

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1 – Agent Installation, Issues and Solutions

Currently busy for a client to install and configure Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for database and more administration across the globe. These environments were configured and setup by a different 3rd party so not always follow our wishes and administration guidelines. You can imagine that such environments are also a neat environments regarding learning curves …

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Jul 02 2012

XMLTYPE datatype and ORA-22992

Anton has a small but informative post on LOB handling across database links and avoiding a possible ORA-22992. I was not sure if XMLTYPE’s, CLOB based storage or Binary XML (Securefile) storage had the same limitations and/or in need of possible workarounds. So the best way to be sure is of course too just to …

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Dec 20 2011

HOWTO: Using the Oracle XMLDB Repository to Automatically Shred Windows Office Documents (Part 1)

People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combined with Google Earth. This post will zoom in on how to …

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Nov 21 2011

HOWTO: XDB Repository Events – An Introduction

Oracle XMLDB Repository Events, IMHO, was one of the coolest functionalities introduced in Oracle 11.1. In principal they are a kind of event “triggers” that get fired during actions / methods on objects in the XDB Repository. One of the disadvantages of this functionality is that they are very “sparsely” documented in the Oracle XMLDB …

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Nov 21 2011

HOWTO: Implement Versioning via Oracle XMLDB

Since a long time, the database has had some versioning capabilities, long before features like “Edition Based Redefinition” in Oracle 11gR2 appeared. This versioning, via XMLDB functionality, is based on its XDB Repository access to the database. The XDB Repository is a file/folder metaphor that acts as a file server. You can enable this functionality …

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