2020-06-21

Names Matter

This is one of my favorite quotes: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton IT is my daily live. And this quote is so true. Lately I’ve been thinking much more than usual about naming, and that names really matter. This led […]
2018-05-06

Why and How Using the accessible_by_clause

The accessible_by_clause was introduced in Oracle Database 12 Release 1 and extended in Release 2. If you don‘t know this feature, I suggest to have a look at the documentation or read Steven Feuerstein’s blog post. In this blog post I talk about how to use this feature properly. Consider you have […]
2018-04-30

Accessible PL/SQL Programs in Oracle Database 18c

I’ve recently installed plscope-utils in an Oracle Database 18c instance. A package body using the SYS.UTL_XML.ParseQuery function failed to compile. The error message was: PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to ‘PARSEQUERY’. Fixing that was easy. I just had to pass the new mandatory currUid parameter. But then I’ve got the […]