scripting (4)

Dave

PowerDesigner Annoyances 1

Yes, I tagged it with a '1' because I already know there are more to come :) I created a notebook on this site to collect information about PowerDesigner. My first entry deals with basic script generation options for Oracle and how to get better…

Dave

Generating lots of DDL with DBMS_METADATA...

After using many different tools to generate DDL I usually end up back at DBMS_METADATA. DBMS_METADATA is an Oracle supplied package that became available with Oracle 9. DBMS_METADATA is an API that can be used to generate the DDL of most any object in an…

Dave

Manage rebuilding of indexes...

I've been doing some speed testing of rebuilding indexes. I have been adding the PARALLEL clause to my alter index ... rebuild; statements but it has been suggested to me to also run multiple indexes rebuilds in parallel. So if I am wanting to run…

Dave

I can't login! The server is down! 

Yup. I'm tired of hearing this from users. Since I changed jobs from a software development house to a more focused DBA role I hear this a lot. As much as I'de like to just log into their app server and comb through logs to…