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Send SMS, MMS and Voice messages from Oracle PL/SQL
If you need to send almost any message to almost any phone from your Oracle database, and you want to use straight PL/SQL, you may want to consider using my Clicksend API. SMS (Short Message Service)...
View ArticleRETURNING RECORD INTO
This is an idea for an enhancement to the PL/SQL syntax. If I have the following declaration: DECLARE in_record mytable%ROWTYPE; out_record mytable%ROWTYPE; BEGIN I can do this: INSERT INTO mytable...
View ArticleCode can be scary when you simplify it
Disclaimer: I’m not posting to make me look better, we’ve all written code that we’re later ashamed of, and I’m no different! This is some code I discovered buried in a system some time ago. I’ve kept...
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“Smart quotes” showing as “?” in emails
When some of my users were using my system to send emails, they’d often copy-and-paste their messages from their favourite word processor, but when my system sent the emails they’d have question marks...
View ArticleA random string of digits
715175039885776956103287888080 I needed to generate a random string with an exact length consisting of numeric digits, that I could send in an SMS to a user as a temporary account “pin”....
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TAPI Generator MkII
The last few weeks I’ve made quite a few improvements to my TAPI generator which I thought I’d share. I’ve also added an Apex API generator which generates code suitable for interfacing between simple...
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DBMS_MVIEW.explain_mview with no MV_CAPABILITIES_TABLE
Need to run DBMS_MVIEW.explain_mview in APEX SQL Workshop, but don’t have the MV_CAPABILITIES_TABLE? You’ll get this error: ORA-30377: table ORDS_PUBLIC_USER.MV_CAPABILITIES_TABLE not found You don’t...
View ArticleShort circuit evaluation and the great Unknown
One of the nice things about PL/SQL is that it implements short circuit evaluation, a performance enhancement which takes advantage of the fact that an expression using logical AND or OR does not...
View ArticleSome collection methods I’d like to see added to PL/SQL
In building a code generator I found the need to write a number of helper methods for doing basic modifications of arrays that are indexed by integer – such as appending one array onto another,...
View ArticlePretty Print JSON in PL/SQL
I have been working with some code that uses JSON, sometimes fairly large documents of the stuff, and it’s often necessary to send this to the debug log (e.g. DBMS_OUTPUT) for debugging; however, the...
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