Comments on: Cool SQL function: DUMP http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/ News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle and other fun stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kamus Oracle World http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-1156 Kamus Oracle World Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:26:36 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=187#comment-1156 <p>Cool SQL function: DUMP</p> <p>征求了Eddie Awad...</p> Cool SQL function: DUMP

征求了Eddie Awad…

]]> By: kamus http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 kamus Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:06:59 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=187#comment-1154 <p>I found your posts always be interesting, I'm a Oracle DBA living in China, maybe I can translate some of your articles into Chinese, but I cannnot find any Creative Commons license in your site, so if you don't mide my translation please email to me. Thanks.</p> <p>kamusis [at] gmail [dot] com</p> I found your posts always be interesting, I’m a Oracle DBA living in China, maybe I can translate some of your articles into Chinese, but I cannnot find any Creative Commons license in your site, so if you don’t mide my translation please email to me. Thanks.

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]]> By: kamus http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 kamus Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:59:33 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=187#comment-1153 <p>never in prodcution applications, just use it for some data storage internal test.</p> never in prodcution applications, just use it for some data storage internal test.

]]> By: Gagan http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Gagan Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:36:55 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=187#comment-1150 <p>The dump command is very handy, and I used it to perform character set conversions when I had to migrate an Oracle 8 database to an Oracle 9iR2 database.</p> The dump command is very handy, and I used it to perform character set conversions when I had to migrate an Oracle 8 database to an Oracle 9iR2 database.

]]> By: Gary http://awads.net/wp/2006/01/12/cool-sql-function-dump/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Gary Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:13:59 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/?p=187#comment-1149 <p>Haven't used it in Production code, but its handy for debugging (looking for trailing spaces or control characters such as a CR in VARCHAR2 fields).</p> <p>One aspect I like is that DUMP(val) returns the string 'NULL' for null values, so DUMP(val_1) = DUMP(val_2) returns TRUE if both values are NULL. However because DUMP also shows the datatype, the same returns false for, for example, val_1 is the number 10 and val_2 the string '10'.</p> Haven’t used it in Production code, but its handy for debugging (looking for trailing spaces or control characters such as a CR in VARCHAR2 fields).

One aspect I like is that DUMP(val) returns the string ‘NULL’ for null values, so DUMP(val_1) = DUMP(val_2) returns TRUE if both values are NULL.
However because DUMP also shows the datatype, the same returns false for, for example, val_1 is the number 10 and val_2 the string ‘10′.

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