Category Archives: PL/SQL

Long time no see

It’s been quite some time since my last post. It’s not that I haven’t been busy, just didn’t find the time or a subject to write a blog about. Until now. I came up with something I didn’t know. I have a pipelined table function where I want to suppress a record from appearing when […]

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KScope12

Just back from a full week in San Antonio for KScope12. I really had a good time. ODTUG provides us with the best conference for developers in the world. Seen some great sessions, met up with some old friends, made a lot of new ones, met in real life with some people I knew only […]

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Timing in PL/SQL

In my current project I wanted to add some timing to the logging the code already does. So I started my search for a good timing package. My first idea was to download PL/Vision and use the timer that is in there. Installing this was not as simple as I hoped it to be. The […]

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Make use of exceptions

While I was browsing the supportforum of PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations I came across a thread about the special copy function of PL/SQL Developer. In this thread a function was written to determine if a sent in parameter (VARCHAR2) was numeric or not. I took this implementation and created my own depending on the […]

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Using Table Functions

Overview of table functions Table functions are functions that produce a collection or rows (either a nested table or a varray) that can be queried like a physical database table. You use a table function like the name of a database table, in the FROM clause of a query. The difference with a physical database […]

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ODTUG Kscope 2011

Last week I attended my very first ODTUG KScope conference in Long Beach, California. I have  attended conferences by ODTUG before, but they were never this broad. Sunday On Sunday I attended the APEX symposium. It was nice to see that APEX is being developed by a rather small, but geographically dispersed, group of people. […]

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KScope 11

About 4 weeks from now KScope11 will be well underway. I am really looking forward to attending this conference. I think it is more ‘developer-centric’ than for instance Oracle Open World is. I still have to create my schedule for the days, but I know of at least one session where I will be present.

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