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Quite frequently the people who have to work with PL/SQL and who have some experience with other programming languages (like me) are looking for familiar mechanisms to solve their problems. One of these mechanism is dynamic evaluation of the language expressions commonly used in Unix shell, Perl and other languages. It actually turns out that [...]
Exception handling mechanism is a very important feature of PL/SQL. In most of the cases it is much simpler to just attempt an operation and properly handle the expected failure rather than to check for the conditions before attempting an operation. For example: it is much easier to unconditionally attempt to drop a table and [...]
I love shell scripting. This is something that the typical Windows users usually do not understand. They have to download tons of buggy shareware utilities to do something simple. In UNIX you can do a lot of tricky things with the standard tools that come with the system (in case of Linux - for free). [...]
This article describes various approaches to looking at the processes in you UNIX environment. Unlike other operating systems, most of the UNIX systems allow you to get a lot of information about the state of the system, processes, I/O, networking etc.
Why and when do you need it? There may be endless list of situations that [...]
