RE: Script for reversing a string?

U did the right thing Jay. Oracle does provides u the answer. thats why its called Oracle (answer to everything), except when it comes to licensing

select
utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2(utl_raw.reverse(utl_raw.cast_to_raw('LOOK'))) from dual
/

-Mandar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miller, Jay [mailto:JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:17 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Script for reversing a string?
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> 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:rlsmith_at_kmg.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:36 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 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
> rlsmith_at_kmg.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:01 PM
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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
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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