I came across a very nasty bug in Oracle SQL engine while working on some new code. It took me a while to figure out what the problem is as the SQL code I was working on was acting weird. The work was related to refactoring and consolidating an existing code. As part of the… Read More


In my previous post I have described solution allowing you to obtain count of error rows that get inserted into error table when using Oracle SQL syntax of INSERT INTO … SELECT … FROM … LOG ERRORS. The solution provided had a bug related to resetting counters. You might say, that the problem was with… Read More


Oracle SQL has a really neat feature to log the rows that failed to be processed during DML statement (INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE / MERGE ). This is really great feature and you cen read a lot more about it on oracle-base.com The thing I was wondering about is, if I log errors and… Read More


Foreword The biggest challenge around unit testing is to make it work for you (as an engineer), not against you.   Many developers struggle, when writing unit tests. This is mainly due to the fact that while we are educated in design and implementation of database software, we are not mentored on  unit testing. The struggle leads… Read More