Diffrence Btwn SQL calendar and Easy Calendar

Hi Friends
Can anyone explain me whats the difference between the SQL calendar and Easy calendar...I know for the SQL calendar i can use query builder and restrict the remaining columns in the source of the calendar.And for Easy calendar i require the Whole table for that..But still if u can explain little bit more than i would appreciate u guys...
thanks
rommy

hi rommy,
the answer is in dis link...........
Easy Calendar: creates a calendar based on schema, table, and columns you specify. The wizard prompts you to select a date column and display column.
SQL Calendar: creates a calendar based on a SQL query you provide. The SQL SELECT statement you provide must include at least two columns, a date column and display column.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe10gdb/develop/htmldbcal/htmldbcal.htm#t5.
hope this is helpful
thanx.
mannu

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Tyring to dynamically create SQL statment for an SQL Calendar

Is there a way to dynamically create an SQL statement that an SQL Calendar would use. I don't see an option to create a PL/SQL Calendar.
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Jason,
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================================================
create or replace package dyn_calendar is
procedure set_query(i_query in varchar2);
function view_source return calendar_table pipelined;
end;
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v_query varchar2(100) := null;
procedure set_query(i_query in varchar2) is
begin
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end;
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TYPE cursor IS REF CURSOR;
c_cal cursor;
v_date_time date := null;
v_description varchar2(100) := null;
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loop
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end;
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================================================
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select * from table(dyn_calendar(view_source))
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BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015
Steef-Jan Wiggers
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW
Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Vignesh Sukumar
BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
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Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015
Wim Beck
FIM2010: Filter objects on export
PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. "
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Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the log files in server
JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way."
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!"
saramgsilva
Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published
Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!"
JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services."
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015
Arleta Wanat
Retrieve all site mailboxes in your Office 365 tenant
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Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial."
Andy ONeill
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Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful"
Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature."
Chen V
PowerShell : Enable Auto Reply for Shared Mail Box
Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : Performing Batch Operations using REST API
KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value."
Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!"
Matthew Yarlett
Using the SpellCheck Webservice with the TinyMCE Richtext Editor and
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Arleta Wanat
SharePoint Online: Turn on support for multiple content types
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Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Nonki Takahashi
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RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling"
Ed Price - MSFT
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RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history."
Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: TechNet Wiki Article List
Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. "
RZ: "A good example"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015
Sylvain PONTOREAU
PowerBI API in .Net
RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
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SQL Server Books Online
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Durval Ramos
How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server
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Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples."
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Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
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Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic
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Paul Ishak
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Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations"
Andy ONeill
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Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015
Durval Ramos
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Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015
Carmelo La Monica
Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3)
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Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal
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Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015
Richard Mueller
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DexterPOSH
PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word
Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015
Andy ONeill
Lookless Controls
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Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!"
Andy ONeill
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Andy ONeill
Bind to Current Item of Collection
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Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015
Mr X
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Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
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Free E-Books about SQL and Transact-SQL languages
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Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals
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Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
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SQL *Loader and External Table

Hi,
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What are the conditions under we can use SQL * Loader and External Table.
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External tables are accessible from SQL, which generally simplifies life if the data files are physically located on the database server since you don't have to coordinate a call to an external SQL*Loader script with other PL/SQL processing. Under the covers, external tables are normally just invoking SQL*Loader.
SQL*Loader is more appropriate if the data files are on a different server or if it is easier to call an executable rather than calling PL/SQL (i.e. if you have a batch file that runs on a server other than the database server that wants to FTP a data file from a FTP server and then load the data into Oracle).
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SQL Server and Reporting Services

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For example:
Create a single database for each client.
Create a single data source in Reporting services for each client.
Create a folder in Reporting Service for each client, and replicate all the report and point each report to its correct data source.
Is there an easier method for this type of solution.

Hi acedenoBI,
According to your description, you have reports which has same structure for each user. Now you want to have a folder for each client to keep their reports. And each client should have a single database and single data source. Right?
In Reporting Service, if we need one data source to connect different database dynamically, we may need to use parameter and create dynamic connection string. However, in this scenario, since we need to have a single folder and data source for each
client, so we can just make copies of the whole project. Modify the Connection string in each data source, change the Initial Catalog to be the corresponding database for the client. This can be an easy way to meet the requirement.
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NVARCHAR - NVARCHAR2 datatype mapping between sql server and oracle.

Question regarding size allocation that occurs for NVARCHAR columns in sql server to NVARCHAR2 in Oracle in the migration tool.
The migration tool has converted NVARCHAR columns to be twice their size as NVARCH2 in Oracle. Example, a table whose column is mycol NVARCHAR(40) gets migrated as mycol NVARCHAR2(80).
In SQL Server land, the designation of a column as NVARCHAR(40) will physically store the column as 80 bytes. However, as I understand from this excerpt (taken from here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/03-nov/o63tech_glob.html), that Oracle in essence will do the same thing for NVARCHAR2:
To make it easy to allocate proper storage for Unicode values, Oracle9i Database introduced character semantics. You can now use a declaration such as VARCHAR2(3 CHAR), and Oracle will set aside the correct number of bytes to accommodate three characters in the underlying character set. In the case of AL32UTF8, Oracle will allocate 12 bytes, because the maximum length of a UTF-8 character encoding is four bytes (3 characters * 4 bytes/character = 12 bytes). On the other hand, if you're using AL16UTF16, in which case your declaration would be NVARCHAR2(3), Oracle allocates just six bytes (3 characters * 2 bytes/character = 6 bytes). One difference worth noting is that for UTF-8, a declaration using character semantics allows enough room for surrogate characters, whereas for UTF-16 that is not the case. A declaration such as NVARCHAR2(3) provides room for three UTF-16 code units, but a single supplementary character may consume two of those code units.
As I read this, NVARCHAR(40) in sql server should be equivalent to NVARCHAR2(40) in Oracle and not NVARCHAR2(80) as it gets translated to - am I missing something? We have a rather large database to migrate so I need to get this size allocation right (and I obviously don't want to truncate any data).
Thanks -

Right - well, that's what I'm suggesting is that NVARCHAR(8) in SQL Server is equivalent to NVARCHAR2(8) in Oracle. Truncation will occur after 8 of any character, including, say, double byte Kanjii characters, which would physically store 16 bytes in the NVARCHAR(8) NVARCHAR2(8) column defn. I tried that in both SQL Server and Oracle, and the behavior is the same.
Also, technically, NVARCHAR2(8) and VARCHAR2(8 CHAR) is roughly the same in terms of behavior, except that in the first case, the physical storage is 16 bytes, while in the second case, it's 24 bytes (to account for 'supplemental' characters or true UTF-8 compliance). Same truncation occurs after 8 of -any- character be it single byte ascii or double byte kanjii, which is the behavior I expect.
Thanks for looking into this. What I decided to do was the following:
What was originally defined in SQL Server as varchar (and translated to VARCHAR2 with the CHAR designation), I removed the CHAR designation since I truly want that number of bytes to be stored, and not characters (for columns I do not care about UTF8 or 16 compliance - that will also mimic the same behavior I currently have on the SQL Server side. For anything that was nvarchar in SQL Server, I went ahead and created them as VARCHAR2 with the CHAR designation, with the same size (not double the value as was in SQL Server which the documentation says it gets translated to). I did this since we probably will need true UTF-8 compliance down the line, and since I had the hood open, it was easy enough to do. I could also have converted NVARCHAR(n) to NVARCHAR2(n) (and not n*2) as what was happening in the migration.
I tested strings in both cases, and I think I have my solution.
Edited by: kpw on Sep 24, 2008 11:21 AM

SQL Performance and Security

Help needed here please. I am new to this concept and i am working on a tutorial based on SQL performance and security. I have worked my head round this but now i am stuck.
Here is the questions:
1. Analyse possible performance problems, and suggest solutions for each of the following transactions against the database
a) A manager of a project needs to inspect total planned and actual hours spent on a project broken down by activity.
e.g
Project: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Activity Code          planned     actual (to date)
     1          20          25
     2          30          30
     3          40          24
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b)On several lists (e.g. list or combo boxes) in the on-line system it is necessary to identify completed, current, or future projects.
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(i)Only members of the Corporate Strategy Department (which is an organisation unit) should be able to enter, update and delete data in the project table. All users should be able to read this information.
(ii)Employees should only be able to read information from the project table (excluding the budget) for projects they are assigned to.
(iii)Only the manager of a project should be able to update (insert, update, delete) any non-key information in the project table relating to that project.
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set echo on
* Changes
* 4.10.00
* manager of employee on a project included in the employee on project table
* activity table now has compound key, based on ID dependence between project
* and activity
drop table org_unit cascade constraints;
drop table project cascade constraints;
drop table employee cascade constraints;
drop table employee_on_project cascade constraints;
drop table employee_on_activity cascade constraints;
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drop table activity_order cascade constraints;
drop table work_unit cascade constraints;
* org_unit
* type - for example in lmu might be FACULTY, or SCHOOL
CREATE TABLE org_unit
ou_id               NUMBER(4)      CONSTRAINT ou_pk PRIMARY KEY,
ou_name          VARCHAR2(40)     CONSTRAINT ou_name_uq UNIQUE
                         CONSTRAINT ou_name_nn NOT NULL,
ou_type          VARCHAR2(30) CONSTRAINT ou_type_nn NOT NULL,
ou_parent_org_id     NUMBER(4)     CONSTRAINT ou_parent_org_unit_fk
                         REFERENCES org_unit
* project
CREATE TABLE project
proj_id          NUMBER(5)     CONSTRAINT project_pk PRIMARY KEY,
proj_name          VARCHAR2(40)     CONSTRAINT proj_name_uq UNIQUE
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proj_budget          NUMBER(8,2)     CONSTRAINT proj_budget_nn NOT NULL,
proj_ou_id          NUMBER(4)     CONSTRAINT proj_ou_fk REFERENCES org_unit,
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* employee
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emp_id               NUMBER(6)     CONSTRAINT emp_pk PRIMARY KEY,
emp_name          VARCHAR2(40)     CONSTRAINT emp_name_nn NOT NULL,
emp_hiredate          DATE          CONSTRAINT emp_hiredate_nn NOT NULL,
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act_proj_id          NUMBER(5)     CONSTRAINT act_proj_fk REFERENCES project
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act_name          VARCHAR2(40)     CONSTRAINT act_name_nn NOT NULL,
act_type          VARCHAR2(30)     CONSTRAINT act_type_nn NOT NULL,
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act_actual_start_dt      DATE,
act_planned_end_dt     DATE,
act_actual_end_dt     DATE,
act_planned_hours     number(6)     CONSTRAINT act_planned_hours_nn NOT NULL,
act_people_budget     NUMBER(8,2)      CONSTRAINT act_people_budget_nn NOT NULL,
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ep_emp_id          NUMBER(6)     CONSTRAINT ep_emp_fk REFERENCES employee,
ep_proj_id          NUMBER(5)     CONSTRAINT ep_proj_fk REFERENCES project,
ep_hourly_rate      NUMBER(5,2)      CONSTRAINT ep_hourly_rate_nn NOT NULL,
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ea_emp_id          NUMBER(6),
ea_proj_id          NUMBER(5),
ea_act_id          NUMBER(6),
ea_planned_hours      NUMBER(3)     CONSTRAINT ea_planned_hours_nn NOT NULL,
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ao_proj_id          NUMBER(5),
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wu_act_id          NUMBER(6),
wu_proj_id          NUMBER(5),
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wu_end_dt          DATE CONSTRAINT wu_end_dt_nn NOT NULL,
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/* enter data */
start ouins
start empins
start projins
start actins
start aoins
start epins
start eains
start wuins
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: We are evaluting Developer 6.0 Beta version.
: Sql Net*8 is working well on the server side(Window Nt) no
probs
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