In SQL Developer you have a lot of options when connecting to the database. You can use the TNS entries defined but you can also give the hostname, port and SID or Servicename for instance. PL/SQL Developer doesn’t supply these options, but you can still use them…
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How can we use Oracle to deduplicate our data
Dear Patrick, We have gone through a merger at our company where we are trying to merge the databases. The problem now is that we have duplicate records in our tables. We can of course go through all the records by hand and check if they exist twice. Another option is to build an application […]
Read moreOTN Appreciation Day : Prebuilt Developer VMs
I learnt a lot from the entire Oracle Technology Network and I still do. One of the best features of OTN these days, IMHO, is the ability to download prebuilt Virtual Machines. Since I am a developer and not an administrator, I don’t like to be bothered with stuff like how much disk space do […]
Read moreHow can we add custom code to existing triggers?
Dear Patrick, We have bought an application that runs on an Oracle database. There are triggers defined on the tables, but we want to add our own code to these triggers, but we don’t have access to the source code. What is the approach we should follow to accomplish this? Collin Bratforth
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