In my previous post, I showed how you can add a fake hint to tag the origin of a duplicated statement and as a side-effect make it unique. What if you regret and can’t remember where it was. Or you want to review old hinted statements after an upgrade to a newer version of the database/optimizer.
Finding duplicate SQL statements using PL/Scope is easy. If you cannot merge them, how can you differentiate between which source is being run?
On our production system we’ve enabled the collection of PL/Scope metadata. Since this is a SmartDB/PinkDB-application (business logic and queries in the database), this makes it really easy to find, inspect and modify the source code of queries that doesn’t run efficiently. Now it’s even easier using reports in Oracle SQL Developer.
I had a case where I had to match some names and needed to find a set of ways to clean and match strings. The solution I ended up with was a combination of regular expressions, the NLSSORT-function and the UTL_MATCH-package with the Jaro-Winkler algorithm.
I’ve always just used the TRIM-function to remove leading and trailing spaces. While going through Markus Winands presentation “Four* Major Database Release of 2017 in Review” on SlideShare.net, I realized that the TRIM function can do more than just remove spaces.
