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Return a fully dynamic table from an Oracle function

I'd like to write a function with two IN parameters where the first one is a varchar and the second a list of varchars. Based on these I want to return a table with varying column amounts and names of ...
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Migration of SQL Server to Oracle Database

In Sql server, My Procedure will create temporary tables where column names are dynamically comes from every user, then inserts the data into the temporary tables and i use the data further based on ...
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PLSQL : DBMS Jobs - parallelization?

I am looping over a cursor and executing a stored procedure; how do I parallelize this process through dbms.jobs? for rec in select column from table1 loop execute stored_procedure( rec.column ); end ...
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Transform XPath map into XML document using relational data

Background Most modern databases have XML functions that can be used to extract data in an XML format. I want to avoid the task of manually calling XML functions to extract the data. This problem ...
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Where can I find a syntax reference for Oracle SQL Developer's “Generate DB Doc” function?

Oracle SQL Developer (I'm using v3.2) has a feature called "DB Doc", which generates documentation for database objects. I mostly want to use it to generate documentation for my stored procedures, ...
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Initializing Associative Array in PL/SQL

Using PL/SQL, suppose we've declared a nested table type and its instance as follows: type nested_tab is table of pls_integer; tab nested_tab;. We are then able to initialize our nested table ...
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How can one reliably update a LOB column with data from another LOB column in Oracle?

I have tried: UPDATE "SCHEMA".TABLE SET LOB_COLUMN = (SELECT LOB_COLUMN FROM "SCHEMA".TABLE) I have tried: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE COPY_LOB_DATA IS OLD_BLOB BLOB; NEW_BLOB BLOB; ...
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PL/SQL extremely slow FETCH performance

I have a stored procedure that includes (among many other things) a dynamic query with a LOOP and a FETCH. The fetch has to potential retrieve a large amount of data as one column contains spatial ...
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Passing parameters to a procedure executed by DBMS_SCHEDULER

I have a scheduler program that runs a stored procedure that requires input parameters. BEGIN DBMS_SCHEDULER.DROP_PROGRAM (program_name => 'MYSCHEMA.EXPORT_SCHEMA_STARTING'); END; ...
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Error PLS-00436: implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND table of records

i've problem here. i wanna create a Stored procedure like below, but i encountered error PLS-00436: implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND table of records. create or ...
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12154 error when using PL/SQL Developer

I have installed a few versions of Oracle on my machine. I have tried 64 bit and 32 bit versions. I have installed 11G. I need Oracle 10G 32 bit. Using the following guide I removed all versions of ...