Tag Archives: PL/SQL

Learning How To Scale An ASP.NET Application

For the last nine months, the development team at Stella Hospitality Group have been working on integrating a new piece of software into the enterprise. Throughout that process, we’ve come up against various stumbling blocks and subsequently learned how to … Continue reading

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Oracle Dynamic SQL Using The DECODE Function

When developing most applications, you end up having to interact with a database. If you’re application is large enough and warrants the design and effort, it will no doubt be tiered as well. If your application is tiered, one of … Continue reading

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Storing Time Information In Oracle

I recently had a requirement to store a time within Oracle, not a timestamp or a date – just the time. As it turns out, storing just the time information in Oracle isn’t something you can do without a little … Continue reading

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ORA-06552: PL/SQL: Compilation Unit Analysis Terminated

Today I received a strange error from Oracle, for what appeared to be no good reason: ORA-06552: PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated ORA-06553: PLS-320: The declaration of the type of this expression is incomplete or malformed I received the error … Continue reading

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ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error

Today I came up against a very frustrating problem when writing some Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and functions: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error When I first wrote the stored function in question, I was using VARCHAR2 types for storage … Continue reading

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