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Abstract: Storicizzare i dati spesso è un attività considerata “secondaria”, ma un cattivo design porta a base dati difficili da ottimizzare e spesso poco comprensibili. In questo articolo illustriamo un semplice metodo che rispetta i dettami della teoria relazionale, è facile da capire ed è attivamente usato in produzione.
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The Sqlite Oracle Compatibility Functions is an experimental compatibility layer for SQLite vs Oracle, written in Python 3.
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Sometimes you need to remove nasty duplicate on a table, based on a subset of the column. On every big database there is something called “rowid” which can be used to indentify a column in a unique way. On PostgreSQL is called ctid, as we shall see:
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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.
Even if Oracle databases (<12) does not support auto increment, you can easily ask to your sql data modeler to generate for you a sequence and a trigger in a automatic way.
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Oracle SQL Developer is full of nice feature, damned by a overwhelming options pane, like the one I will describe to you right now.
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Okey, you know Oracle. A very good database, a very old database, a very solid rock. Not famous for its error messages. I have already stumbled upon a misleading error on the old rock.
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Debian perfect work environment
Sep 28, 2014 · 3 min read ·
Working in a big company, my work laptop came with MS-Windows7 Enterprise installed. But as you imagine, Unix is my preferred desktop environment. So let’s how to configure a perfect Debian Linux for a old wolf consultant like me. You will be able to install commercial software mubmo jumbo like Oracle Express and IBM Websphere in a snap, and have a 64 rock solid system, easy to bring in a USB stick if you like.
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I stumbled upon a very brain-f**k error on Oracle 10g on these days.
Context: the following query [sql]SELECT * FROM (
SELECT TO_NUMBER(CUSTOMER_ID) AS SNDG FROM BAD_CODES_TABLE WHERE
AND I_LIKE=UPPER(‘STATIC_CONDITION’) AND CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE ‘%P%’ ) S WHERE TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000[/sql] could trigger a Invalid number if CUSTOMER_ID column contains invalid numbers.Why?
Well…if you ask to “explain plan”, you will get something like
- a table full scan
- Filter Predicates AND
- I_LIKE=UPPER('STATIC_CONDITION')
- TO_NUMBER(S.SNDG) >2000
- CUSTOMER_ID NOT LIKE '%P%'
- Filter Predicates AND
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Twitter il gradasso
Aug 25, 2012 · 2 min read ·C’è una cosa fantastica di Internet: se qualsiasi società prova a fare la furba, inserendo delle righe scritte in piccolo quando revisiona la sua API da 1.0 a 1.1, state certi che ci sarà almeno una persona che si leggerà tutto, troverà la fregatura e sputtanerà la summenzionata società.
E’ quello che è successo con Twitter, e Marco Arment analizza nei dettagli le “novità” della nuova Twitter API che passa dalla versione 1.0 alla 1.1.
Vi rimando all’articolo per i dettagli, ma in buona sostanza Twitter sta cercando di fare in modo che “se voi fate qualcosa di interessante con Twitter, bhe ora dovete collaborare con noi…per continuare a farlo….”:
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