How to Install and deinstall Oracle Text in 12.1.0.2

This post demonstrates how to deinstall / install Oracle Text in 12.1.0.2. Before doing so, DBA should make sure and understand the component dependencies as below.

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How to Install and deinstall Oracle Text in 11.2.0.4

This post demonstrates how to deinstall / install Oracle Text in 11.2.0.4. Before doing so, DBA should make sure and understand the component dependency as below.

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How to Terminate the Idle Sessions Automatically in Oracle

Poor application design can cause excessive connections to Oracle database, the idle sessions stuck in Oracle database forever, finally the ORA-00020 error occur in alert log.

Certainly DBA can write a job to kill the idle sessions periodically. Instead, here we will take advantage of Oracle features to terminate idle sessions in Oracle database automatically.

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ERROR: currval of sequence “SEQUENCE_NAME” is not yet defined in this session

In PostgreSQL, when trying to get the current value of a sequence, the following errors occur:

select currval('SEQUENCE_NAME');

ERROR:  currval of sequence "SEQUENCE_NAME" is not yet defined in this session
SQL state: 55000

SOLUTION

Query PG_SEQUENCES to get the last value of sequences.

=> \d pg_sequences
              View "pg_catalog.pg_sequences"
    Column     |  Type   | Collation | Nullable | Default
---------------+---------+-----------+----------+---------
 schemaname    | name    |           |          |
 sequencename  | name    |           |          |
 sequenceowner | name    |           |          |
 data_type     | regtype |           |          |
 start_value   | bigint  |           |          |
 min_value     | bigint  |           |          |
 max_value     | bigint  |           |          |
 increment_by  | bigint  |           |          |
 cycle         | boolean |           |          |
 cache_size    | bigint  |           |          |
 last_value    | bigint  |           |          |