ba6.us - Dave's Database Related Stuff

OraPad is an Oracle utility program I am writing as a Tuning Scratchpad. I need a place to coordinate my activities when I am in the thick of a tuning issue. Right now it seems like I am using multiple tools and I would like a central place to organize my tuning information and thoughts. Bonus if we are able to wrap some functionality to cut out extra tools required to do the tuning investigation.

I'm starting work on some DB tuning utilities written in Java and I needed a way to hold some data locally. The volume of data I plan on storing is more than I would feel comfortable keeping in local properties or XML files and I didn't want to deal with setting up an Oracle XE instance just to service my lightweight utilities so I checked into a bunch of embedded databases. Embedded databases are databases that I can wrap into my application.

Now that I am working in an environment where I am responsible for more database instances it seems like data is always moving around. Machines are being retired, platforms are changing, all kinds of fun stuff. I often have to move using regular old Oracle import/export utilities. These utilities aren't the best at some of the more esoteric Oracle features so some 'backfilling' of objects or permissions may be required. Here are some queries that are helpful when moving a schema that has Oracle Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Dependencies: