Irrelevant thoughts of an oracle DBA

30 November 2009

0x1A

Filed under: rant — Freek D'Hooge @ 0:23

0x1A, better know as the end of file character.
Now also known as the cause of me waisting several hours on analyzing a 500MB raw trace file trying to figure out why the tkprof report did not seemed to be correct.

Still wondering why the application I was tracing had an EOF character in the value of a varchar2 type bind variable.

3 Comments »

  1. Man! I hate when that happens!

    Comment by Noons — 30 November 2009 @ 0:42 | Reply

  2. I seem to have upset some EDI translation company because I used the standard ux2dos on a flat file I outputted and moved to a nfs on a windows system, which then mailed it along. Seems ux2dos puts the “standard dos” ^Z at the end of the file…

    Comment by joel garry — 31 March 2010 @ 2:15 | Reply

  3. I seem to have upset some EDI translation company because I used the standard ux2dos on a flat file I outputted and moved to a nfs on a windows system, which then mailed it along. Seems ux2dos puts the “standard dos” ^Z at the end of the file…
    +1

    Comment by Jeramie — 26 May 2010 @ 21:56 | Reply


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