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Conversion Gotchas: Implicit Conversion in Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration

Introduction – Implicit Conversion Oracle to PostgreSQL migration is a playground that uncovers and touches upon many database concepts, which are always intriguing and fun to explore. Implicit Conversion, i.e., imposing automatic conversion on data types to make them comparable … Continue reading

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Numeric types and implicit conversion in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL offers enriching variant for storing numeric kind of data. it varies from being integer types , floating type or as Numeric. it’s always wise to understand on how it internally execute for equality operator when we try to compare … Continue reading

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Implicit Conversion consideration while migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL.

Implicit Conversion most of time hides anomalies of inconsistent datatype.Oracle support implicit conversion when comparing Different kind of DataType in a Query. Its naturally a bad design, as a Database Developer we should have Table schema and Filter bind of … Continue reading

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Explain plan Command : Why we should not rely for exact runtime plan.

For getting SQL plan we have lot of method in oracle, one of them being EXPLAIN PLAN FOR Command.We use EXPLAIN PLAN Command to get estimated Plan without running the SQL. Oracle perform parsing on SQL and store estimated plan … Continue reading

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