Why are Oracle table/column/index names limited to 30 characters?

I believe it’s the ANSI standard. EDIT: Actually, I think it’s the SQL-92 standard. A later version of the standard appears to optionally allow for 128 character names, but Oracle doesn’t yet support this (or has partial support for it, insofar as it allows 30 characters. Hmmm.) Search for “F391, Long identifiers” on this page… … Read more

oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver ClassNotFoundException

Class.forName(“oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver”); This line causes ClassNotFoundException, because you haven’t placed ojdbc14.jar file in your lib folder of the project. or YOu haven’t set the classpath of the required jar java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Just add the ojdbc14.jar to your classpath. The following are the steps that are given below to add ojdbc14.jar in eclipse: 1) Inside your project … Read more

How to count the number of occurrences of a character in an Oracle varchar value?

Here you go: select length(‘123-345-566’) – length(replace(‘123-345-566′,’-‘,null)) from dual; Technically, if the string you want to check contains only the character you want to count, the above query will return NULL; the following query will give the correct answer in all cases: select coalesce(length(‘123-345-566’) – length(replace(‘123-345-566′,’-‘,null)), length(‘123-345-566’), 0) from dual; The final 0 in coalesce … Read more

How do you get nicely formatted results from an Oracle procedure that returns a reference cursor?

If GetQuestions is a function returning a refcursor, which seems to be what you have in the SQL Server version, then rather you may be able to do something like this: select * from table(MyPackage.GetQuestions(‘OMG Ponies’)); Or if you need it in a PL/SQL block then you can use the same select in a cursor. … Read more

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