FYI: Apparently the reverse function exists in SQL Plus but not in PL/SQL
(I couldn't compile a function that referenced it).
utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(utl_raw.reverse(utl_raw.cast_to_raw('LOOK')))
worked perfectly though.
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SQL> select reverse('abc') from dual;
REV
---
cba
--- "Miller, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before I reinvent the wheel, I was wondering if
> anyone has written a
> function that will reverse a string?
> Our auditors are requiring that Oracle passwords not
> contain the reverse of
> the user name and I was about to start writing this
> function when I decided
> to check here first.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay Miller
>
>
>
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>
> It hasn't caused me any problems - have only tried
> it on this test server so
> far, and on my workstation.
>
> The workstation has Oracle 7.3. and 8.0.4 on it they
> have been running for
> over a year.
>
> I wouldn't try this on a production system! These
> are test databases only.
>
> I am just curious why the files are so fragmented.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Ron L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: RE: Does NT write to random locations on
> disk?
>
> I wouldn't think you would want to reorg an Oracle
> tablespace with
> an NT
> defrag utility. You would corrupt the data.
> Ron Smith
> Database Administration
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> Using a little utility called contig I noticed that
> the Oracle 8.1.6
> datafiles on my test NT server are quite
> fragmented, an average of
> 177
> fragments per file, 118 fragments for the OEM
> repository datafile.
> The poor
> utility couldn't do anything with the database
> files, they are too
> large
> perhaps.
>
> These were created on an empty server, 8i release 2
> went on it after
> a
> defrag, then the OEM. This is on a hard disk with
> 1.2G of free
> space, none
> of the datafiles come close to that.
>
> Why so many fragments? Oracle created those files
> in one pass, does
> NT
> write randomly to disk or what?
>
> Won't this have an impact on my NT database's
> performance?
>
> Oracle says tablespace fragmentation is not a big
> deal, but
> fragmentation at
> the OS level matters. Supposedly that's why NT
> and WndowsXX came
> with
> defragmentation tools.
>
> ???
>
> Is there a registry setting somewhere to tell NT to
> write
> contiguously to
> disk?
>
> TIA
> Patrice Boivin
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>
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