Last week I attended the Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group’s (NEOOUG) first meeting of 2013. The main topic of the day was the upcoming release of Oracle 12c. The “c” stands for “cloud”, and the focus is on making private cloud environments easier to deploy and manage. Pluggable Databases Up til now in Oracle, every […]
Last month I mentioned that I’d like to start including Oracle stuff on this blog. I’m getting back into that world again as part of the new job, and this blog has always been, first and foremost, a way for me to document and share what I’m learning. Now I realize that a lot of […]
This week I’ve been chasing my own white whale. Another developer came to me with this little problem. A query he was trying to run over a linked server to an Oracle database was returning unexpected results. Here’s his original query: select count(order_num) from openquery(PROD, ‘select t2.order_num from myschema.mytable t2 where open_date < to_date(”01-JAN-2011”, ”DD-MON-YYYY”) […]
