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MERGE to table with Virtual Columns + Error Log Table = ORA-03113
This is just in case you come across this. It appears to be an Oracle bug. I don’t know if it’s been fixed in a later release. I haven’t isolated a simple repeatable test case yet, so I don’t know if...
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Apex Dynamic Action silently fails – a story
Here is a short story about a little problem that caused me a bit of grief; but in the end had a simple cause and a simple fix. I had a dynamic action in my Apex 4.1 app that had to run some PL/SQL –...
View ArticleSmall SAMPLE bug in Oracle 9i (ORA-30561)
If you’re using the SAMPLE clause in Oracle 9i, in combination with a join, be aware of this small gotcha. I found a workaround, thankfully. select * from (select * from dual), (select * from dual...
View ArticleAnd you thought OR was commutative…
I came across this at dbdebunk (ON THE NOTHING THAT’S WRONG WITH NULLS with Hugh Darwen, Fabian Pascal). Couldn’t let that go so I tested it under 9i (9.1) and 10g (10.2) and got identical results. The...
View ArticleORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: Bulk bind: Error in define
I came across an inexplicable error when bulk collecting into a PL/SQL table with the NOT NULL constraint the other day. What was confusing was that the code had been passing tests for quite some time....
View ArticleEasy way to crash a Oracle 10.2 session
This query crashes the session when it’s run or parsed.I haven’t checked if this appears in other versions or not. SQL> conn scott/tiger@orclConnected. SQL> select * from v$version;Oracle...
View Article“No Primary Key item has been defined for form region”
Otherwise reported as “WWV_FLOW_FORM_REGION.NO_PRIMARY_KEY_ITEM” or merely “Internal error”, this bug caused me to waste hours of investigation, twice, because a simple Google search was not returning...
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