How to off the IDENTITY column of table in TSQL - identity-insert

i used 'SET IDENTITY_INSERT OFF' and this is executing successfully but in the table still identity on only
please help any one

This is going to drive you crazy but to do what you want use
SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON
This article explains it.
The gist is that however misguided the decision, someone made the call that this statement would refer to whether your scripts could alter the identity column. Rather backwards, but that's just the way it is :D

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Oracle best way to set create/modify user vua a trigger

I recall reading an article or seeing a video from an oracle expert regarding setting create_user or modify_user using a trigger. I wish I could remember more details!!
There was a recommendation to use the sys_context command to get the value.
I know of the following commands(see below). As I'm dealing with sensitive data, which command who provide me with the most secure way to capture the data I need? I suspect it would be OS_USER to change that would require a person who knows the root password to edit /etc/sudoers.
I would like to get some other opinions. In addition, if anyone remembers the link to the INSERT/UPDATE trigger can you please post it. I believe it was a before each row trigger, but I am unsure
sys_context('USERENV', 'AUTHENTICATED_IDENTITY')
sys_context('USERENV', 'SESSION_USER')
sys_context('USERENV', 'OS_USER')

Sequences (using as ID) issue in Oracle SQL Developer

I am using sequences to create IDs, so while executing insert stored procedure it will create unique value for ID. But after some time it is losing the definition for the sequence.
Not sure why this is happening again and again and how to solve the problem?
I am using Oracle SQL Developer and in the edit table property there is 'Identity Column' setting. See below:
Next step is setting up trigger and sequence:
It was working fine for some time until this property defaulted. Now it is not there anymore:
Still have this trigger and sequence object in the schema and able to setup again but it will break later.
How to avoid this problem in future?
I think it is just a bug/limitation in your client software, Oracle SQL Developer. The "Identity Column" tab is a handy way to create the corresponding sequence and trigger but it doesn't seem to recognise existing elements. I've just verified my own system and that's exactly what happens.
It makes sense, because adding a new sequence and trigger is a pretty straightforward task (all you need is a template) but displaying current sequence is hard given that a trigger can implement any conceivable logic. Surely it could be done but the cost-benefit ratio probably left things this way.
In short, your app is not broken so nothing needs to be fixed on your side.
This is what I received from IT support regarding the issue:
A few possibilities that might cause this:
1 - Another user with limited privileges might be editing the table using SQL Developer. In this case, if this user's privilege is not enough to obtain the sequence and/or trigger information from the database, the tool might leave the fields blank and disable it when table changes are saved.
2 - The objects are being changed or removed outside of SQL Developer, causing it to lose the information. In my tests I noticed that dropping the trigger and recreating it with the same name caused the identity property information to be lost on SQL Developer.
Even being the trigger enabled, and working for inserts it could not retrieve the information.
Then, if I run an alter trigger to enable it (even tough dba_trigger is reporting it as already enabled), SQL Developer will list the information again:
ALTER TRIGGER "AWS"."TABLE1_TRG" ENABLE;
So it looks like there are some issues with the SQL Developer, that is causing this behavior.
Next time it happen, please check if the trigger still exist on the database and is enabled with the query below:
select owner, trigger_name, TRIGGER_TYPE, TRIGGERING_EVENT, TABLE_OWNER, TABLE_NAME, STATUS
from dba_triggers
where trigger_name = 'ENTER_YOUR_TRG_NAME'; --Just change the trigger name in WHERE

Oracle: Monitoring changes in v_$parameter

Long time user, first time "asker".
I am attempt to construct an Oracle procedure and/or trigger that will compare two tables with the MINUS operation and then insert any resulting rows into another table. I understand how to do the query in standard SQL, but I am having trouble coming up with an efficient way to do this using PL/SQL.
Admittedly, I am very new to Oracle and pretty green with SQL in general. This may be a silly way to go about accomplishing my goal, so allow me to explain what I am attempting to do.
I need to create some sort of alert that will be triggered when the V_$PARAMETER view is changed. Apparently triggers can not respond to changes to view but, instead, can only replace actions on views...which I do not wish to do. So, what I did was create a table that to mirror that view to essentially save it as a "snapshot".
create table mirror_v_$parameter as select * from v_$parameter;
Then, I attempted to make a procedure that would minus these two so that, whenever a change is made to v_$parameter, it will return the difference between the snapshot, mirror_v_$parameter. I trying to create a cursor with the command:
select * from v_$parameter minus select * from mirror_v_$parameter;
to be used inside a procedure, so that it could be used to fetch any returned rows and insert them into another table called alerts_v_$parameter. The intent being that, when something is added to the "alert" table, a trigger can be used to somehow (haven't gotten this far yet) notify my team that there has been a change to the v_$parameter table, and that they can refer to alerts_v_$parameter to see what has been change. I would use some kind of script to run this procedure at a regular interval. And maybe, some day down the line when I understand all this better, manipulate what goes into the alerts_v_$parameter table so that it provides better information such as specifically what column was changed, what was its previous value, etc.
Any advice or pointers?
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Any thoughts will be very appreciated.
I would create a table based on the exact structure of v_$parameter with an additional timestamp column for "last_update", and periodically (via DBMS_Scheduler) merge into it any changes from the real v_$parameter table and capture the timestamp of any detected change.
You might also populate a history table at the same time, either using triggers on update of your table or with SQL.
PL/SQL is unlikely to be required, except as a procedural wrapper to the SQL code.
Examples of Merge are in the documentation here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/statements_9016.htm#SQLRF01606

How to find out what tables/views/synonyms are used in a stored procedure

Through Oracle queries is it possible to find out which views/synonyms/tables a stored procedure use?
In PL/SQL Developer if you collapse out a stored procedure it will show "References" which shows all the tables/views/synonyms that the stored procedure uses.
I am trying to implement this functionality into a script which will come in handy.
Wondering if anyone knows a script that will fetch me all the synonyms/views/tables that a stored procedure uses?
The information you are looking for is in the user_dependencies/all_dependencies view.
The answer by #Rene is correct however I believe it needs additional explanation. When selecting from all_dependencies you might run query like one below that should give you all the objects that are referencing your SP.
SELECT *
FROM all_dependencies
WHERE "REFERENCED_NAME" = 'vcustomeraddresses';
You might be surprised when it will come back empty-handed.
This is because oracle is CASE SENSITIVE. What this means is that you have to ether disable case sensitivity (if version of oracle you are using is above 10g r2)
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_COMP=LINGUISTIC;
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT=BINARY_CI;
or upper both sides when comparing
SELECT *
FROM all_dependencies
WHERE upper("REFERENCED_NAME") = upper('vcustomeraddresses');
Hope this saves you some time and frustration.

How to find out when an Oracle table was updated the last time

Can I find out when the last INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement was performed on a table in an Oracle database and if so, how?
A little background: The Oracle version is 10g. I have a batch application that runs regularly, reads data from a single Oracle table and writes it into a file. I would like to skip this if the data hasn't changed since the last time the job ran.
The application is written in C++ and communicates with Oracle via OCI. It logs into Oracle with a "normal" user, so I can't use any special admin stuff.
Edit: Okay, "Special Admin Stuff" wasn't exactly a good description. What I mean is: I can't do anything besides SELECTing from tables and calling stored procedures. Changing anything about the database itself (like adding triggers), is sadly not an option if want to get it done before 2010.
I'm really late to this party but here's how I did it:
SELECT SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(MAX(ora_rowscn)) from myTable;
It's close enough for my purposes.
Since you are on 10g, you could potentially use the ORA_ROWSCN pseudocolumn. That gives you an upper bound of the last SCN (system change number) that caused a change in the row. Since this is an increasing sequence, you could store off the maximum ORA_ROWSCN that you've seen and then look only for data with an SCN greater than that.
By default, ORA_ROWSCN is actually maintained at the block level, so a change to any row in a block will change the ORA_ROWSCN for all rows in the block. This is probably quite sufficient if the intention is to minimize the number of rows you process multiple times with no changes if we're talking about "normal" data access patterns. You can rebuild the table with ROWDEPENDENCIES which will cause the ORA_ROWSCN to be tracked at the row level, which gives you more granular information but requires a one-time effort to rebuild the table.
Another option would be to configure something like Change Data Capture (CDC) and to make your OCI application a subscriber to changes to the table, but that also requires a one-time effort to configure CDC.
Ask your DBA about auditing. He can start an audit with a simple command like :
AUDIT INSERT ON user.table
Then you can query the table USER_AUDIT_OBJECT to determine if there has been an insert on your table since the last export.
google for Oracle auditing for more info...
SELECT * FROM all_tab_modifications;
Could you run a checksum of some sort on the result and store that locally? Then when your application queries the database, you can compare its checksum and determine if you should import it?
It looks like you may be able to use the ORA_HASH function to accomplish this.
Update: Another good resource: 10g’s ORA_HASH function to determine if two Oracle tables’ data are equal
Oracle can watch tables for changes and when a change occurs can execute a callback function in PL/SQL or OCI. The callback gets an object that's a collection of tables which changed, and that has a collection of rowid which changed, and the type of action, Ins, upd, del.
So you don't even go to the table, you sit and wait to be called. You'll only go if there are changes to write.
It's called Database Change Notification. It's much simpler than CDC as Justin mentioned, but both require some fancy admin stuff. The good part is that neither of these require changes to the APPLICATION.
The caveat is that CDC is fine for high volume tables, DCN is not.
If the auditing is enabled on the server, just simply use
SELECT *
FROM ALL_TAB_MODIFICATIONS
WHERE TABLE_NAME IN ()
You would need to add a trigger on insert, update, delete that sets a value in another table to sysdate.
When you run application, it would read the value and save it somewhere so that the next time it is run it has a reference to compare.
Would you consider that "Special Admin Stuff"?
It would be better to describe what you're actually doing so you get clearer answers.
How long does the batch process take to write the file? It may be easiest to let it go ahead and then compare the file against a copy of the file from the previous run to see if they are identical.
If any one is still looking for an answer they can use Oracle Database Change Notification feature coming with Oracle 10g. It requires CHANGE NOTIFICATION system privilege. You can register listeners when to trigger a notification back to the application.
Please use the below statement
select * from all_objects ao where ao.OBJECT_TYPE = 'TABLE' and ao.OWNER = 'YOUR_SCHEMA_NAME'

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