Since my last post about the undocumented pragmas in Oracle, I have found more information about the FIPSFLAG pragma directive and more specifically about the FIPS part of it. Jens commented about the existence of a session parameter FLAGGER and its possible relationship with FIPSFLAG and FIPS. After a bit of searching, here is what […]

No, the SQL ANSI/ISO standards do not matter to me because of two reasons:

Can I use the ANSI SQL 92 syntax in Oracle SQL? the answer is yes, but only if you have Oracle 9i and above.