Lee Lindley

I'm Just Another Perl Hacker who wound up in a big Oracle Database playground

Lee Lindley Scratchpad


01/22/2022Protecting/Hiding Data in Oracle
Using Oracle Fine Grained Access Control to implement a protected datastore for ssh private keys
01/18/2022HTML Table Markup Redux
HTML and CSS suck once again, but we can overcome.
01/16/2022HTML Table Markup in Oracle
A small enhancement to the venerable DBMS_XMLGEN/XLSTYPE technique for turning a query resultset into a HTML table.
01/09/2022More CSV Fun - Turn CSV into SQL Resultset
A pattern for turning CSV data into an Oracle Resultset you can use in a query or DML.
01/02/2022Perl Like Operations in PL/SQL
Transforming lists and hacking strings from lists is a staple of Perl programming. PL/SQL makes it more challenging than it needs to be. Presenting a better way with the perlish_util_udt Oracle Object type.
12/31/2021Polymorphic Table Function (PTF) for CSV (take 3)
My journey with PTFs has us more closely aligning with established patterns plus an extended explanation of Replication Factor and how to use it. This article walks through the parts of a PTF with detail and explanation I wish I had seen while I was learning.
12/28/2021Polymorphic Table Function for CSV (take 2)
Continuing the journey with PTFs for parsing a CSV CLOB.
12/27/2021Polymorphic Table Function to the Rescue?
I get my feet wet with a Polymorphic Table Function to parse CSV data from a CLOB.