Oracle is a very complex and robust RDBMS but sometimes uses to joke with developers and administrators generating strange behaviors that seem inexplicable. In some cases these patterns are bug ...

Adaptive Cursor Sharing (ACS) is an Oracle Database feature designed to improve performance by allowing the database to create multiple versions of a SQL execution plan for the same SQL statement, ...

-- Description: A free-standing SQL wrapper over DBMS_XPLAN. Provides access to the -- DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY_CURSOR pipelined function for a given SQL_ID and CHILD_NO. -- The XPLAN utility has one ...

I'm trying to query stream CLOBs from a Ref Cursor that is returned from a PL/SQL procedure, but I'm struggling to get to the actual CLOB data. When I stream rows from the Cursor, all I see returned ...