So today I needed to check what was my Oracle version because the PARTITION is not working and as far as I understand my version is not compatible with it. Here’s how to do it. 1. Log in as sysdba C:Usersrecon1>sqlplus / as sysdba 2. Run the following

Once I needed to empty an Oracle database that was used by several systems, so it was a big mess with tables not needed and a lot of trash. Anyway, here’s a script that will generate a file with drop commands, this is the one that will drop all

Here is how to connect to a remote Oracle database using SQLPlus: sqlplus user/pass@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=protocol)(HOST=host)(PORT=port))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=sid))) Please note that the words in Italics represent variables: user – user name for the remote database pass – password for the remote database protocol

This time I was trying to reproduce an specific scenario and all of a sudden I was getting ORA-25188 in Tomcat’s console. A quick search on google revealed this method: 1. Connect as sysdba C:Userszulu>sqlplus / as sysdba 2. Run the command, wait for the confirmation message SQL>

I was trying to connect to a database today when I found this: I think there could be a lot of reasons for this, but the easiest approach is to reset the user’s password, that is if the user exists of course. Here is the solution: 1. Connect as

Yesterday I needed to run an older version of a project just to make a few changes, for that I needed to update my old code for that project and run all the scripts (.SQL files) to update the database. A colleague gave me a line of code to get

Very easy, just log in into sqlplus and type as follows if you are in the same path as your file: SQL > @file_name.sql If you are not in the same path as your file, you should type as follows: SQL > @/path/to/file_name.sql What if I

Here is how it’s done. 1. Log on as SYSTEM user C:Usersdelta1>sqlplus system SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Thu Feb 20 12:01:00 2014 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter password: Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Express Edition

Once you have installed Oracle database and rebooted the system you can go to a command line window and type the following: C:Usersterminator>LSNRCTL SERVICES The response should look like this: LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 20-FEB-2014 10:23:51 Copyright