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<code>-- Settings select banner from v$version; --Oracle Database 23c Free Release 23.0.0.0.0 - Develop, Learn, and Run for Free select * from v$nls_parameters where parameter in ('NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS','NLS_TERRITORY','NLS_LANGUAGE'); -- NLS_LANGUAGE GERMAN 3 -- NLS_TERRITORY GERMANY 3 -- NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS ,. 3 create table asktom_gpx_tab (i number ,xmldata xmltype ); INSERT INTO asktom_gpx_tab -- (i,xmldata) VALUES (1 ,xmltype( '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> <gpx> <trkpt lat="49.773210" lon="8.930600"><ele>340.8</ele></trkpt> <trkpt lat="49.772980" lon="8.930280"><ele>342.0</ele></trkpt> <trkpt lat="49.772740" lon="8.929900"><ele>341.5</ele></trkpt> </gpx>') ); commit; select elevation from asktom_gpx_tab t, xmltable('/gpx/trkpt' passing t.xmldata columns elevation varchar2(20) path 'ele') x1; -- 340,8 -- converted because NLS sets decimal sign to comma -- 342.0 -- why is this value not converted to comma??? -- 341,5 -- converted because NLS sets decimal sign to comma -- I found a Question here with a supposed solution but it doesnt work right select to_number(elevation,'FM9999D99','nls_numeric_characters = '',.''') from asktom_gpx_tab t, xmltable('/gpx/trkpt' passing t.xmldata columns elevation varchar2(20) path 'ele') x1; -- 340,8 -- ok -- 3420 -- This is definitely a wrong value -- 341,5 -- ok</code> Shouldnt all values be treated the same way?

What are the recommended BIG-IP F5 settings for routing HTTP traffic to ORDS 24.4 without SSL in an Oracle EBS-integrated environment?

Is there a commit size parameter for datapump import utility in the future? Currently there is none. I see direct path insert and parallel process are there and if so will adding commit size parameter help in faster data loading.

Hello and thank you for your response. Sorry I could not provide a live example SQL. I have an application running in JBoss connecting to a database Reporting_DB and executes SQLs there. The SQLs actually would access views in the Reporting_DB. The views are accessing tables which are in a remote DB, say ReadOnlyStandby_DB accessed over a DB link to a remote database. Here is a simple schematic: Application --Network--> Reporting_DB ---DB Link--> ReadOnlyStandby_DB ORM sql ---> View --> Table SQL Signature: Example of SQL seen in Reporting_DB: The application uses some ORM (hibernate), so the SQLs are always changing as seen in the Reporting_DB: select this_.Column1 as Column1_485_0_, this_.Column2 as Column2_485_0_, this_.Column3 as AUDIT3_485_0 etc. Example of SQL seen in ReadOnlyStandby_DB The sql seen in the ReadOnlyStandby_DB looks like this: SELECT "A1"."col1" ... FROM "TABLE_1" where CONDITION ... UNION ALL ... The users are complaining that the performance is slow, developers are sharing application logs that show SQLs are timing out with slowness. The final database where SQL is executed is a Data Guard read only Standby database. I have OEM on Reporting_DB and ReadOnlyStandby_DB but the app server (JBOSS) is external to my jurisdiction and have no access or insight. How can I get the following details: 1) Connect the dots for session: How to connect the dots from App, db session to Reporting_DB, db session to ReadOnlyStandby_DB 2) Session Trace: How to trace session coming from DB link on ReadOnlyStandby_DB 3) SQL Analysis: The SQL on Reporting_DB is not the same on ReadOnlyStandby_DB; it seems to change. How to connect SQL "a" on Reporting_DB and its related SQL "b" on ReadOnlyStandby_DB ?

Hello All I have created a Materialized view using the following code <code>CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW "APPS"."XXBST_UNPACK_PENDING_MV" ("CUST_ACCOUNT_ID", "CUSTOMER_NAME", "SUPPLIER_ID", "SUPPLIER_NAME", "SHIPMENT_ID", "SHIPMENT_NUMBER", "UNPACK_DATE", "DAYS_IN_UNPACK_PENDING_STATUS") SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE ORGANIZATION HEAP PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 0 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS NOLOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "APPS_TS_TX_DATA" BUILD DEFERRED USING INDEX REFRESH COMPLETE ON DEMAND START WITH sysdate+0 NEXT sysdate + (1/24/60)*30 USING DEFAULT LOCAL ROLLBACK SEGMENT USING TRUSTED CONSTRAINTS EVALUATE USING CURRENT EDITION DISABLE ON QUERY COMPUTATION DISABLE QUERY REWRITE AS SELECT * FROM xxbst_unpack_pending_v;</code> This is in a non prod environment which has just been restored from a backup due to the code being changed in prod to this lowest level expanded code <code>CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW "APPS"."XXBST_UNPACK_PENDING_MV" ("CUST_ACCOUNT_ID", "CUSTOMER_NAME", "SUPPLIER_ID", "SUPPLIER_NAME", "SHIPMENT_ID", "SHIPMENT_NUMBER", "UNPACK_DATE", "DAYS_IN_UNPACK_PENDING_STATUS") SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE ON PREBUILT TABLE WITHOUT REDUCED PRECISION USING INDEX REFRESH FORCE ON DEMAND USING DEFAULT LOCAL ROLLBACK SEGMENT USING ENFORCED CONSTRAINTS EVALUATE USING CURRENT EDITION DISABLE ON QUERY COMPUTATION DISABLE QUERY REWRITE AS SELECT "A1"."CUST_ACCOUNT_ID" "CUST_ACCOUNT_ID","A1"."CUSTOMER_NAME" "CUSTOMER_NAME","A1"."SUPPLIER_ID" "SUPPLIER_ID","A1"."SUPPLIER_NAME" "SUPPLIER_NAME","A1"."SHIPMENT_ID" "SHIPMENT_ID","A1"."SHIPMENT_NUMBER" "SHIPMENT_NUMBER","A1"."UNPACK_DATE" "UNPACK_DATE","A1"."DAYS_IN_UNPACK_PENDING_STATUS" "DAYS_IN_UNPACK_PENDING_STATUS" FROM (SELECT "A7"."CUST_ACCOUNT_ID" "CUST_ACCOUNT_ID","APPS"."XXBST_DEV_UTILS_PKG"."GET_CUST_SHORT_NAME"("A7"."CUST_ACCOUNT_ID") "CUSTOMER_NAME","A3"."VENDOR_ID" "SUPPLIER_ID","A3"."VENDOR_NAME" "SUPPLIER_NAME","A10"."SHIPMENT_ID" "SHIPMENT_ID","A10"."SHIPMENT_NUMBER" "SHIPMENT_NUMBER",MAX("A7"."CREATION_DATE") "UNPACK_DATE",TRUNC(SYSDATE)-TRUNC(MAX("A7"."CREATION_DATE")) "DAYS_IN_UNPACK_PENDING_STATUS" FROM "XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_SHPMNT" "A10","XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_MV_PLAN" "A9","XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_MV" "A8","XXICE"."XXICE_SM_RCV_HEADERS" "A7","XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_HEADERS_ALL" "A6","XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_LINES_ALL" "A5","XXBST"."XXBST_BOM_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL" "A4", (SELECT "A12"."VENDOR_ID" "VENDOR_ID","A12"."VENDOR_NAME" "VENDOR_NAME" FROM "AP"."AP_SUPPLIERS" "A12","AR"."HZ_PARTIES" "A11" WHERE "A12"."PARTY_ID"="A11"."PARTY_ID") "A3","XXBST"."XXBST_TNT_MV_PLAN" "A2" WHERE "A10"."SHIPMENT_ID"="A7"."SHIPMENT_ID" AND "A10"."SHIPMENT_ID"="A9"."SHIPMENT_ID" AND "A9"."PLAN_ID"="A8"."PLAN_ID" AND "A8"."MV_TYPE"='DELIVERY' AND "A8"."MV_STATUS"='UNPACK_PENDING' AND "A6"."SHIPM...

Hi Sir, I'm trying to copy the Oracle Label Security information from one database and apply it to another one. I tried to use expdp/impdp and dbms_metadata.get_ddl, but I didn't have success using them. Is there a special package or tool to get this work done? Thanks in advance. Valerio Almeida

A couple of days ago I exported an application from APEX 24.1.5 and imported it into APEX 24.2.9 on my OCI free tier instance.

Whilst the application itself was working fine, I got a problem when I tried to edit page 4 in the App Builder: the spinner kept spinning for an unusual amount of time and eventually stopped showing an empty page, and in the error notification area APEX showed "Error: 572".

 

Now, according to other users this Error 572 was a symptom of an overloaded database, which seemed strange to me because the page is not particularly complex and I could open other pages in the editor without problems.

After various unsuccessful attempts to see if I could gather some meaningful information from the APEX Builder debug logs (see this interesting Steve Muench's blog posting on how to do that), I decided to have a closer look at the differences between the previous version of this page and the current, problematic one.

Here are some relevant facts:

• The current version of the page can be edited without problems in APEX 24.1.5.
• If I export this single page from 24.1.5 and import into 24.2.9 the problem persists, so if there is a problem, it's not caused by the import process of the whole application.
• The "new" version of the page works correctly when I run the application, so, APEX metadata must be good.
• The only difference between the old version and the new version is in the source of the query I am using to populate an Interactive Report.
• If I import the old version of the page, then the App Builder editor resumes working properly. 

The difference between the old and the new query is the following CASE function, the old version did not contain the lines in yellow: 

case 
  when json_value(e.value,'$.email[0]') is null
  then apex_lang.message('NO_RECIPIENT')
  when json_value(e.value,'$.email[1]') is null
  then apex_lang.message('SINGLE_RECIPIENT')
  else apex_lang.message('OTHER_RECIPIENTS')
end as RECIPIENTS

If I comment out the two lines in yellow in the page source, import the page and try to edit it, everything is back to normal.

The tricky part in this type of problems is in that if you receive this error upon entering the editor then you cannot delete the offending page because Error code 572 is breaking the delete page functionality, so your only option is to replace the page with an import of a working version.

If you receive this error while you are still inside the editor of the page, you may have a chance of reverting the page to its previous state.

In my case it was easy, I had an older working version of the page, but if you don't, then you must work around the problem in some other fashion, in the worst case I presume you must edit the import file and get rid of some components.

In conclusion, my wild guess is that something wrong is happening at parse time and in particular I strongly suspect that the absence of meaningful values for the bind variables used in the conditions of my query are breaking the logic of the JSON_VALUE function that relies on the content of the JSON array "email", which at parse time of course is empty, resulting in this weird error.

Moreover, the IR query handling must have changed in some way between the two APEX releases.

Now, it could be that Error 572 is also returned when there is a "database overload", but in this specific case I can't see any correlation.

Or may be there is something else going on that I can't fathom right now.

Need to hide or show multiple buttons or page items basing on a common client-side condition?

Instead  of creating a single dynamic action for each button, define a common CSS class (i.e. mybuttons) on each of the buttons and then use a single DA with jQuery selector like ".mybuttons" for the Hide action and one for the Show action, thus reducing the page complexity.

 

And you can also extend this to other components like page items or regions, if they follow the same logic.

Hello experts, I have a UNIQUE constraint on (col1, col2) for a table. But, due to new functionality, I need a conditional unique constraint based on col 3. So something like this: if col3 = 'Val1': UNIQUE constraint on (col1, col2) else: UNIQUE constraint on (col4, col5) I'm on oracle DB 19c, and found that creating a unique index with case type helps. Can you guide me on alternative options and the pros, cons for this design. I do not want to create any new table and want the best way to achieve conditional unique constraints. Thanks

I am using version 23.1.1 and when I start up the application, it just hangs. I have no idea what to look at to even begin to diagnose the problem.

Dear Experts, Social Sign-in with Microsoft Azure/Office 365 in Oracle APEX applications is working well. I used this How-To: https://tm-apex.hashnode.dev/implementing-social-sign-in-with-microsoft-azureoffice-365-in-apex When I use the substitution variable in APEX (&APP_USER.) I get the correct name. So far so good! But we need the samAccountName for checking Authorization. I tried #samAccountName#, #sam_account_name# and #sam#. It doesn't work! :( APEX is referencing in help the site https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0.html#Scopes where I found other keys ("claims"). Not all are working, for instance #sub# and #family_name# works, #preferred_username# does not work. With the help of Google I found other keys like #upn# (https://promatis.com/ch/en/build-a-secure-oracle-apex-app-with-microsoft-azure-ad-login-and-delegated-calendar-access/) which works fine and is not mentioned in the above website. But my question to you is how I get the samAccountName from Azure??? What is the correct name/key/claim? May I have to configure other things than "profile,email" in scope textfield maybe?

<code>create table add_column_default ( id number ) / insert into add_column_default ( id ) values ( 0 ) / alter table add_column_default add col1 number default 5 / insert into add_column_default ( id, col1 ) values ( 11, null ) / select * from add_column_default order by id / ID COL1 ---------- ---------- 0 5 11 2 rows selected. drop table add_column_default /</code> <b>Assumptions:</b> My understanding is that the data block is not modified during the ALTER. That is, the row with id = 0 is not updated to add a col1 value of 5. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/ALTER-TABLE.html#:~:text=If%20you%20specify%20the%20DEFAULT,subject%20to%20the%20following%20restrictions%3A <i>"If you specify the DEFAULT clause for a column, then the default value is stored as metadata but the column itself is not populated with data. However, subsequent queries that specify the new column are rewritten so that the default value is returned in the result set."</i> Note: This used to not be the case for nullable columns in 11.2. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18283_01/server.112/e17118/statements_3001.htm#CJAHHIBI:~:text=When%20you%20add%20a%20column%2C%20the,a%20default%20value%20or%20NULL. <i>"When you add a column, the initial value of each row for the new column is null. ... If you specify the DEFAULT clause for a nullable column, then the default value is added to existing rows as part of this ALTER TABLE statement, and any update triggers defined on the table are fired. This behavior also results if you change a NOT NULL column with a default value to be nullable."</i> My understanding is that the data block does not store any information (not even the length byte) regarding col1 when the value is null and col1 is the last column in the table. <b>Therefore:</b> Rows inserted before the ALTER do not have col1 information. Rows inserted after the ALTER may not have col1 information (inserting null into the last fixed width column in a table). <b>Confusion/Question:</b> If both rows look the same (with respect to col1 information) in the data block, then how does Oracle know to return a col1 value of 5 for the row with id = 0 and return a col1 value of null for the row with id = 11?

Hello Sir, We're using Oracle Database 19C Enterprise edition. We're getting a XML tag in Varchar2 format. Then we're using XMLTYPE to convert that to XML. However, incase when there's special character in the XML tag it's giving a unknown special character in the output. What can we do to get the same output Sample SQL: <code>select XMLTYPE('<tag1> a''bc </tag1>') from dual;</code> Output: <code><tag1> a&apos;bc </tag1></code> Expected output: <code><tag1> a'bc </tag1></code>

Hi Dear Experts, I want to create a SQL PLAN baseline for one of the My system query in a two-node RAC 19.21. With user SYS and inside a PDB with the following commands <code>var v_num number; exec :v_num:=dbms_spm.load_plans_from_cursor_cache(sql_id => '0b3...............',plan_hash_value => 2170529430 ,fixed=>'YES');</code> It gives a successfull response. Of course, the output of the above command is returned as 0. And when I check the Plan baselines with the following command, I see that nothing new has been created: <code>select * from dba_sql_plan_baselines</code> I check with the following command and see that plan_hash_value equal to 2170529430 exists in memory: <code>select sql_id, plan_hash_value, parsing_schema_name, sql_text from v$sql where sql_id = '0b3...............';</code> What is the problem?

Hi Tom, If there is any duplications of records in a table, we know how to eliminate the duplicate rows using rowid. But is there any possibility to delete the duplicate records in a table without using rowid and rownum. my friend who is working in Oracle for arnd 4 years says that it is not possible. But i think there should be some way to do this. Pls give me some suggestion TOM. i would be thankful to you, if you can illustrate with examples. Thanks in Advance Prakash

Hello, I work as a dba and get requests from developers to create tables which we often review and sometimes change for better design and/or implementation. One of the developers recently sent a request to create a table such as the following ; table_name:t1_relation Column_names: c1_master_id_pk (foreign key to t1_master table) c1_attribute c1_value primary key all 3 columns. They explained that the data in all these columns are all non nullable and that they are all needed to uniquely identify a record. having all the columns of a table as a primary key didn't look very right to me and so I suggested we create a surrogate key and make the 3 columns unique with not null constraints on all of them. they initially said yes then came back and said to change it to be how they requested initially. I'm messaging to ask if this is proper database design and what would be the ideal way to implement this?

I am working on an Oracle 19c database running on a RHEL 7 VM. I have been trying to roll back this patch:

Patch 30763851 IMPDP 11.2 TO 18C OR HIGHER HITS ORA-904 WHEN TABLES HAVE EXTENDED STATISTICS

I have it sitting on top of 19.5

Database Release Update: 19.5.0.0.191015 (30125133)

The Opatch rollback command ran fine, but Datapatch threw these errors:

[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11329: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11331: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11333: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11335: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11337: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11339: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11341: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11343: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11355: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_P2TPARTCOL_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11357: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_P2TPARTCOL_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11363: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_SP2TPARTCOL_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11365: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_SP2TPARTCOL_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11381: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11383: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11385: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11387: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11389: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11391: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11393: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11395: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11397: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_P2TCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11399: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_P2TCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11401: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_SP2TCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11403: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_SP2TCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11405: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11407: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_COLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11409: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]   -> Error at line 11411: script rdbms/admin/dpload.sql
[2025-10-22 18:50:15]       - ORA-04063: view "SYS.KU$_PCOLUMN_VIEW" has errors"

I checked DBA_OBJECTS, and all the SYS objects are VALID. I tried querying one of the views and it worked fine. So, I went to My Oracle Support, our Oracle database support site, and searched for ORA-04063 and one of the view names and found nothing. A Google search also came up empty. I tried just ignoring it but that didn’t work. My whole goal in doing this was to apply the October 2025 patches that just came out this week. But because the SQL patch registry indicated that patch 30763851 rolled back with errors, every time I applied a new patch it would try to roll 30763851 back first and error again. Here is what DBA_REGISTRY_SQLPATCH looked like after two failed rollback attempts:

INSTALL_ID   PATCH_ID PATCH_TYPE ACTION          STATUS        
---------- ---------- ---------- --------------- --------------
         1   30125133 RU         APPLY           SUCCESS       
         2   30763851 INTERIM    APPLY           SUCCESS       
         3   30763851 INTERIM    ROLLBACK        WITH ERRORS   
         3   30763851 INTERIM    ROLLBACK        WITH ERRORS   
         4   30763851 INTERIM    ROLLBACK        WITH ERRORS   
         4   30763851 INTERIM    ROLLBACK        WITH ERRORS   

Each rollback attempt tried twice so I have four failures with two rollback attempts.

I opened a case with Oracle support just in case this was a known issue that wasn’t available for me to find on my own. Sometimes that happens. But while waiting on Oracle I kept trying to fix it myself.

The errors refer to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dpload.sql which I think reloads datapump after some change. It runs catmetviews.sql and catmetviews_mig.sql which have the CREATE VIEW statements for the views getting errors, like SYS.KU$_OPQTYPE_VIEW. But the code in catmetviews_mig.sql wasn’t straightforward. I imagined running some sort of trace to see why the script was throwing the ORA-04063 errors, but I never had to take it that far.

At first all this stressed me out. I thought, “I can’t back out this patch. I will never be able to patch this database to a current patch level.” Then I chilled out and realized that if it was a problem with Oracle’s code, they had to help me back out 30763851. But it might take some time to work through an SR with Oracle.

But what if it wasn’t an issue with Oracle’s code but something weird in our environment? I didn’t think it indicated a real problem, but there were some weird messages coming out that I am used to seeing. They were from triggers that come with an auditing tool called DB Protect. They were throwing messages like this:

[SYS.SENSOR_DDL_TRIGGER_A] Caught a standard exception: aliasId=100327, error=-29260, message="ORA-29260: network error: TNS:no listener"

We are used to seeing these errors when we do DDL but prior to this it didn’t cause any actual problems. We had already decommisioned the DB Protect tool but had not cleaned up the triggers. Dropping SYS.SENSOR_DDL_TRIGGER_A eliminated the ORA-04063 errors.

Probably no one will ever encounter this same issue, but I thought I would document it. If you have the same symptoms and you are not using DB Protect any more, do these commands:

DROP TRIGGER SYS.SENSOR_DDL_TRIGGER_A;
DROP TRIGGER SYS.SENSOR_DDL_TRIGGER_B;

I think the A trigger was the problem, but we don’t need either one.

Anyway, this post is just so someone who searches for ORA-04063 and one of the views will find this information and drop the triggers if they have them. It’s a long shot but might as well document it for posterity and for me.

Bobby

 Reusing the sample code from my previous demo, I build a table with 130 sentences describing AI Tools and then use SQL to run the sort of queries that you'd expect RAG to use against an "internal knowledge source".

Here's a preview of the sentences loaded :

SQL> select count(*) from my_data_source;

  COUNT(*)
----------
       130

SQL> select my_sentence from my_data_source fetch first 5 rows only;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Adobe Firefly: A family of generative AI models integrated into Adobe's Creative Cloud suite. It is used for professional image editing and graphic
 design

        AIVA (Artificial Intelligence Virtual Artist): An AI composer that generates music in various styles for content creators and brands
        Amazon CodeWhisperer: An AI coding assistant from Amazon Web Services that provides contextual code recommendations
        Canva Magic Media: An AI image generator integrated into the user friendly design platform. It is used for creating visuals for social media and pr
esentations

        ChatGPT: An AI chatbot from OpenAI. It can engage in human like conversations, write code, summarize text, and create content such as stories and e
ssays


SQL> select my_sentence from my_data_source where id > 126 ;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Zubtitle.com   captions for video
        Cohere.ai   large language models
        Grok.com   personal AI assistant
        Claude.ai   advanced AI chatbot

SQL>

The embeddings are then computed and loaded into the target table using the same query (the HuggingFace model ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED has already been loaded  with the ONNX RunTime engine with the same code as in the previous blog post) :

insert into my_data_vectors
select ds.id as id, my_sentence, to_vector(et.embed_vector) sentence_vector
from
    my_data_source ds,
    dbms_vector_chain.utl_to_embeddings(
       dbms_vector_chain.utl_to_chunks(dbms_vector_chain.utl_to_text(ds.my_sentence), json('{"normalize":"all"}')),
       json('{"provider":"database", "model":"ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED"}')) t,
    JSON_TABLE(t.column_value, '$[*]' COLUMNS (embed_id NUMBER PATH '$.embed_id', embed_data VARCHAR2(4000) PATH '$.embed_data', embed_vector CLOB PATH '$.embed_vector')) et
/

I now test a few "Retrieval" queries thus :  (Note how the queries return different results with smaller VECTORE_DISTANCE as I refine them) 

SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : Video
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'Video';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        Clipchamp.com   quick video creation
          4.635E-001

        Lumen5.com   AI powered social video
          5.277E-001

        Synths.video   convert blogs into videos
           5.39E-001


SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : What AI Tool can I use to edit Videos ?
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'What AI Tool can I use to edit Videos ?';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        Wisecut.video   auto edit with AI
           2.62E-001

        Runwayml.com   AI video editing
          2.777E-001

        Gling.ai   YouTube video editor
          3.413E-001


SQL>
SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : image
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'image';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        VanceAI.com   image enhancement
          5.268E-001

        Canva Magic Media: An AI image generator integrated into the user friendly design platform. It is used for creating visuals for social media and pr
esentations
          5.459E-001

        PicWish.com   photo editing
          5.696E-001


SQL>
SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : How can I use AI to edit Images ?
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'How can I use AI to edit Images ?';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        Hotpot.ai   AI image editing
          2.805E-001

        Runwayml.com   AI video editing
          3.711E-001

        Wisecut.video   auto edit with AI
          3.921E-001


SQL>
SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : Can I chat with an AI ?
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'Can I chat with an AI ?';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        Claude.ai   advanced AI chatbot
          2.989E-001

        Claude.ai   conversational assistant
          3.828E-001

        Grok.com   personal AI assistant
          4.025E-001


SQL>
SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : coding
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'coding';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        Amazon CodeWhisperer: An AI coding assistant from Amazon Web Services that provides contextual code recommendations
          5.543E-001

        Replit.com   write and run code
          5.548E-001

        GitHub Copilot: An AI coding assistant that provides code suggestions and autocompletion within an IDE
          5.677E-001


SQL>
SQL>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


SQL> ACCEPT text_input CHAR PROMPT 'Enter your query : '
Enter your query : Tell me of a Coding Assistant
SQL> VARIABLE text_variable VARCHAR2(1000)
SQL> VARIABLE query_vector VECTOR
SQL> BEGIN
  2    :text_variable := '&text_input';
  3    SELECT vector_embedding(ALL_MINILM_L12_V2_AUGMENTED USING  :text_variable as data) into :query_vector;
  4  END;
  5  /
old   2:   :text_variable := '&text_input';
new   2:   :text_variable := 'Tell me of a Coding Assistant';

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL> SELECT my_sentence, vector_distance(sentence_vector , :query_vector, COSINE) as Calc_Vector_Distance
  2  FROM my_data_vectors
  3  ORDER BY 2
  4  FETCH FIRST 3 ROWS ONLY;

MY_SENTENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALC_VECTOR_DISTANCE
--------------------
        GitHub Copilot: An AI coding assistant that provides code suggestions and autocompletion within an IDE
          4.306E-001

        Amazon CodeWhisperer: An AI coding assistant from Amazon Web Services that provides contextual code recommendations
          4.702E-001

        Replit: An online IDE with an integrated AI assistant that helps with code generation, debugging, and project creation
          4.734E-001


SQL>
SQL>

Thus, in the first pair of examples, if I refine (aka "prompt engineering") my query from "Video" to "What AI Tool can I use to edit Videos ?", I get a better set of responses with  a smaller VECTOR_DISTANCE from my query.

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Today is the day dedicated to the late Joel Kallman, a mentor and friend, so I thought it would be nice to show off my APEX application hosted on OCI working with LLMs run via the Ollama server located at home.

It's an interesting exercise because one learns a lot about how these "things" work, the strong and weak points of each model, which one works best for a certain task, which one has the best "vision" capability, which one creates the best embeddings.

So, here are a few short videos showing some "vibe" coding that I'll need to revise tomorrow, the analysis of two versions of the same procedure created by the same LLM, then a "live" comparison showing how other models answer the same question differently.

So far, so good.

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