Re: Kind of cool feature! DBMS_RANDOM

List,
There is a short article about DBMS_RANDOM in the Sept/Oct issue of ORACLE magazine. It is a quick explaination on the usage and a method to get the text usage. www.oracle.com/oramag/ for the article.
Basically as SQL> select text from all_source where name = "DBMS_RANDOM" and type = "PACKAGE" order by line;
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>>> anjan.thakuria_at_eds.com 09/06/01 12:35PM >>>
Jack, Chris,

Thanks. Don't get play with these a whole lot being on the production side. Both of your experiences with this sounds very exciting.

Need to do some research.

Thanks again.

Anjan

"Jack C. Applewhite" wrote:

> Anjan,Look in Oracle_Home/RDBMS/admin for the dbmsrand.sql file. The
> package is better documented there, at least for the 8.1.6 release.I
> used it last year to generate a Session ID for a Web-accessible
> application to maintain state across a User's multiple page
> hits.Jack--------------------------------
> Jack C. Applewhite
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of
> Anjan Thakuria
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:26 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Kind of cool feature! DBMS_RANDOM
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Pl excuse me for writing directly. I looked up this package
> and there is no mention of the STRING option at all.
> Metalink search returned no hits. Could you please send me
> the location where you got the information from.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Anjan
>
> Christopher Spence wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In 8.1.6 Oracle added a new feature which I don't believe
> > is very well documented, it is great.
> >
> > DBMS_RANDOM.STRING([OPT], [LEN]);
> >
> > This will create a random string with a length of up to 60
> > characters. Great for force populating tables.
> > The opt is for things like L, U, M (Lower, Upper, Mixed
> > case), there are a few different options.
> >
> > One thing I did to force populate a table is:
> > DBMS_RANDOM.STRING('U', DBMS_RANDOM.VALUE(5, 10));
> >
> > Which creates random string with random length between 5
> > and 10 characters. Run 10,000,000 times, I got a table
> > with 30 columns and 10,000,000 random rows in no time.
> >
> > "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their
> > shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a
> > way and have their shoes."
> >
> > Christopher R. Spence
> > Oracle DBA
> > Phone: (978) 322-5744
> > Fax: (707) 885-2275
> >
> > Fuelspot
> > 73 Princeton Street
> > North, Chelmsford 01863
> >
> >
>

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