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	<title>lamp2lapo</title>
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	<description>Helping PHP developers migrate from MySQL to Oracle</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emulating MySQL ENUM Columns</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2007/04/01/emulating-mysql-enum-columns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fifers</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Migration</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MySQL enum column type is useful for enforcing constraints on your text data columns.  We&#8217;ll look at how to emulate this functionality in Oracle using standard SQL constraints.  As an example, let&#8217;s look at a simple MySQL comments table.

CREATE TABLE comments(
    comment_text text,
    comment_type ENUM ('spam', [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL to Oracle Date and Time Helper Functions</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/28/mysql-to-oracle-date-and-time-helper-functions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/28/mysql-to-oracle-date-and-time-helper-functions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hootbah</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Migration</category>
	<category>Downloads</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When porting an application from MySQL to Oracle you have to be aware of the different ways that dates and times are handled.
In this post we&#8217;ll be looking at making porting easier by providing a set of date and time functions ported to Oracle in order to reduce the number of SQL queries to modify.

Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Conference Update: Oracle is free and easy to use!</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/07/php-conference-update-oracle-is-free-and-easy-to-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/07/php-conference-update-oracle-is-free-and-easy-to-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fifers</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve almost made it through the first day of the PHP conference in Germany. The conference is well organised and a smashing success. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by the booth and said hello!
We&#8217;ve noted some points that people are generally surprised to learn when talking to us:

Oracle XE is free to develop on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bug Fixes and Updated RMAN Configuration</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/02/bug-fixes-and-updated-rman-configuration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/02/bug-fixes-and-updated-rman-configuration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fifers</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous article on implementing incremental RMAN backups on XE had some problems:

I failed to set a recovery window so that RMAN could accurately determine which backups were okay to delete
I referred to my tag as whole_db_cpy in my copy and whole_db_copy in my incremental backup

This combination led to a very small database taking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Increment Fields</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/01/auto-increment-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/11/01/auto-increment-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hootbah</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle as such does not have an auto increment field type. You can however emulate the auto increment field type using a trigger and you can also retrieve the auto incremented value back from an insert statement. This article will show you all you need to emulate auto increment type fields in Oracle.]]></description>
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		<title>Modifying Oracle XE&#8217;s backup.sh Script to do Incremental Backups</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/10/04/modifying-oracle-xes-backupsh-script-to-do-incremental-backups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/10/04/modifying-oracle-xes-backupsh-script-to-do-incremental-backups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fifers</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the primary reasons for choosing Oracle over MySQL is Oracle&#8217;s rich set of enterprise features. This article looks at the builtin backup features of Oracle provided by the Recovery Manager (RMAN).
Since we are migrating from MySQL to Oracle, let&#8217;s compare RMAN to MySQL&#8217;s backup offerings.  The two main programs for backing up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column Names</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/25/column-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/25/column-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hootbah</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Migration</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major items to note when converting an application from using MySQL to Oracle is the way in which column names are handled. Generally MySQL returns column names lowercased and Oracle generally returns column names uppercased.

Notice the keyword in both cases being ‘generally’. As with most things to do with MySQL and Oracle everything is not always as easy as it seems.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to Oracle</title>
		<link>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/20/moving-to-oracle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/20/moving-to-oracle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lapo</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating things about being a small company in 1999 was not having a decent database at an affordable price.  Oracle and DB2 were too expensive so we were left with MySQL and PostgreSQL.  Postgres was reliable in those days but rather slow.  MySQL was extremely fast but left out some basic [...]]]></description>
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