UNTIL CANCEL UNTIL CANCEL UNTIL CANCEL

Yesterday I was creating a new Oracle 11.2.0.3 database from a copy of datafiles and archivelogs taken from our standby. I was sure to include archivelogs from just prior to well after the span of the datafile backup time. I had created a new controlfile, gotten everything mounted and recovered... [Read More]

Views, Datatypes and Nulls

Had an interesting little case come up today when helping a client re-write a view. This legacy application stored a date value as January 1, 1970 when they didn't have a date (basically using it as a de facto NULL). I did my best to lecture the client on why... [Read More]
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