31/05/2013

[PL/SQL] Create and call Java procedure to read directory content

Sometimes even PL/SQL isn't enough; luckily Oracle gives us the ability to store Java functions and treat them as procedures.

Consider the following example: we know some files will be stored in a certain directory without knowing their names beforehand and we'd like to read and process those files from our PL/SQL code. By creating a simple Java function depending on the File class, we can solve our problem quickly and easily.

11/05/2013

Oracle 11g regular expressions cheatsheet

Here's a useful cheatsheet for Oracle 11g's regular expressions from psoug.org:

General Information

Anchoring Characters
Character Class Description
^ Anchor the expression to the start of a line
$ Anchor the expression to the end of a line