Oracle: Find The Total Size Of All Of Your CLOB & BLOB Columns In All Tables

Today I received a request from an application owner who wanted to know the size of all the CLOB and BLOB columns in all the non-system tables so that they have a good idea of the size involved for a migration. Tables with BLOB/CLOB columns The SQL to find the tables with the BLOB/CLOB columns …

Oracle: Clone An User With PL/SQL – Tablespace Quotas, Role Grants/Default Role, Object Grants And System Grants

As an Oracle DBA, you are very likely to get requests somewhat like this: Create an account for Sam Hill. The privileges should look exactly like Rob Nixon. If you are not into automating everything, your first instinct would be to fire-up an IDE like Toad or SQL Developer and script out the source user, …

Oracle – Simple/Reusable Statement Runner Using PL/SQL Table Type (Collection)

In an Oracle anonymous block based script, how many times do you run into situations where what needs to be done remains a constant but what that logic works with, keeps changing? Parameters are a great way to do it too but in the illustration below, we are going to use PL/SQL table type (collection). …

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 – Compare Text Files With 10 Million Lines In 10 Minutes Using 10 Lines Of Code – EXTERNAL Tables

The goal of this post is to compare two text files that may have millions of lines and compare them to quickly find out which lines differ using Oracle EXTERNAL tables. As an Oracle professional, “external tables” are something you may already be familiar with or maybe you have heard about them but not used …