Oracle & .NET: Resolve – Exception calling “Fill” with “1” argument(s): ‘count’ must be non-negative.

This is one of those obscure errors that has no answer on the Web. I ran into this error trying to migrate an Oracle table to SQL Server (one of many). The issue seemed to be only with certain rows of this table as it migrated majority of the data without issues. Below is the …

Eating An Elephant – How To Work With Huge Datasets In Oracle And SQL Server

Simplifying complex problems is difficult but when done, the rewards are definitely worth it. How I single-handedly managed to migrate 55 Billion rows in 4000+ tables: Last year, I created PowerPump a PowerShell based data copy server which continuously migrated 4000+ Oracle tables to SQL Server. It was no simple task given that I had …

Oracle – Calculating Business Days Between Two Dates (With Holiday Exclusion)

If you search the web on how to calculate the number of business days between two dates in Oracle, you would see so many results. Here is one more with some explanation to go with it. There is no magic to it. It is simple and straight-forward and this is as basic as it can …

Oracle PL/SQL – Fastest Way To Execute Code Is? To, Not Execute It! – Function Result Caches – Part I

What is the fastest way to execute a PL/SQL function? If you paid attention to the title, your answer would be “to not execute it at all”. In fact, that is the correct answer and Oracle provides the means to do it. The magic is possible because of an Oracle feature called result cache which […]

Oracle – Fastest Way To Execute SQL Is? To, Not Execute It! – Query Result Cache – Part II

Before you read on, please check out my related post on "Function Result Cache". You may find it valuable in this context. Conversation sounds familiar? I am sure you have been privy to a conversation like this between an IT manager and a DBA: Manager:  My query is extremely slow. Can you make the query …