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General tool to load dump files

I am a big fan of Postgres both for its price but also for its features. I am going to have to need to upload into it both Oracle dump and SQL Server files. I will try to ask and beg for plain .csv ...
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Object-oriented programming CRUD design pattern

At first I have posted this question at http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/17170/object-oriented-programming-crud-design-pattern - that's because I think it's a subect question, and it can ...
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A stored procedure to bulk load in Postgres or Oracle given a URL

Is there a stored procedure available in Postgres or Oracle that does a bulk load given a URL, as in: url_bulkload csvFile.ctl Where csvFile.ctl is # # csvFile.ctl -- Control file to load CSV ...
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Versioning data in Databases [closed]

Is there any ready mechanism in Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSql or OR framework (C#), which can version information in a database? By versioning informartion I mean that e.g. I have table Person (id, ...
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Moving data between Oracle and PostgreSQL

For a future project I need to use the following setup: Some small (offline) data boxes (colleting data over the time) fill PostgreSQL databases. (Summing up to about 1 TB a year. For time to time, I ...
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Which Database to choose: MySQL or Oracle

I have an application generating time series data (32 channels, 22KHz, 6 secs) once a minute. These have to be stored in a database. At the moment I'm using MySQL with InnoDB tables ...
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There is an equivalent of login.sql on PostgresSQL?

When you log on Oracle database with SQLplus, it looks for a login.sql file in the current directory. If the file exists, it's executed. It's usefull to set preferences... There is an equivalent ...
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Do isolation levels only apply to SELECTS and not UPDATES? [closed]

Scenario that might demonstrate different behavior for SELECTS depending on the isolation level: 1) 0:00 Thread A runs a query that returns 1000 rows that takes 5 minutes to complete 2) 0:02 Thread B ...
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SQL ANSI JOIN precedence

I have a query that looks like this: SELECT * FROM TBLA A LEFT JOIN TBLB B ON A.Col1 = B.Col2 RIGHT JOIN TBLC C ON B.Col3 = C.Col4 JOIN TBLD D ON C.Col5 = D.Col6 In which order ...
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For absolute performance, is SUM faster or COUNT?

This relates to counting the number of records that match a certain condition, e.g. invoice amount > $100. I tend to prefer COUNT(CASE WHEN invoice_amount > 100 THEN 1 END) However, this is ...
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How to copy bytea from Postgres to Oracle

I have a db on Postgres 9.1. The db collected some binary data that are stored in bytea file. I need to copy the data to Oracle 10g. How to do it? The details I have a table plines in Postgres9.1. ...
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Disable explicit commits in JDBC, detect them in SQL, or put the database in a readonly state

Background: I'm working on http://sqlfiddle.com (my site), and am trying to prevent one avenue of abuse possible there. I'm hoping that by asking about a problem I'm currently addressing, I don't ...
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Oracle to PostgreSQL

I'm having som test databases running Oracle 10 & 11 that I plan to try to migrate to PostgreSQL. Some googling hinted that the perl script "ora2pg" could be of use, and free of charge. However, ...
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Important distinctions between DBMSs [closed]

DBA is a career I'm strongly considering after school, but my limited experience mostly involves some PL/SQL Oracle web programming, some basic PHP/MySQL web pages, and some queries in SQL Server. ...
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How to convert postgresql dump files to oracle dump files?

How can I convert postgresql dump files to oracle dump files? If anyone has experience in this, or knows of an open source tool I can use, please share it with me.
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OCIEnvCreate failed to create environment handle after installing oracle_fdw

I have installed oracle_fdw successfully. After I create extension oracle_fdw and foreign table it shows the following error. Is this a server configuration problem? --env Oracle : 10.2.0.1 ...
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Database for building a realtime analytics system

I want to build a system similar to Google Analytics (only used for internal use, less traffic and less feature), and mainly focus on Real time counting of unique URI visit/PV by different ...
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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle High Availability solutions?

PostgreSQL has a matrix of different high availability options which represent many different ways of building replication into an RDBMS. Here is the PostgreSQL High Availability, Load Balancing, ...
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Is DB2 more reliable and stable compared to PostgreSQL or MySQL?

Always i was using MySQL or PostgreSQL for my projects such as Web/Desktop apps. I had data loss few times and thanks to old backup i was always up and running. But for a recent project for Airport, ...
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Is there a need to keep refreshing the indexes from time-to-time?

This question is common for all the database products I use, viz. SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL. I have created a fresh database and the tables, at present, have no records. I have created ...