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Oracle DBMS_IOT Version 26ai

General Information

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Purpose Creates a table used for identifying chained rows in index organized tables. This package is not created by the DBCA installation because it is not required with database versions greater than 8.0.

I am documenting it here in the library because, for reasons beyond my comprehension, Oracle won't drop it from the distribution. If they keep it ... The Library keeps it.

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Dependencies

COL$	DBMS_STANDARD	ODCINUMBERLIST
DBMS_ASSERT	ICOL$	ODCIRIDLIST
DBMS_IOT_LIB	IND$	PLITBLM
DBMS_SQL	OBJ$	USER$

Documented Yes, but only the first 2 subprograms: Packages and Types Reference

First Available No known

Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC

Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmsiotc.sql

SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/dbmsiotc.sql

      

      SP2-0808: Package created with compilation warnings

      

      Synonym created.

      

      Grant succeeded.

      

      Library created.

      

      SP2-0810: Package Body created with compilation warnings

      

      SQL> sho err

      Errors for PACKAGE BODY DBMS_IOT:

      

      LINE/COL ERROR

      -------- -----------------------------------------------------------------

      92/21 PLW-07203: parameter 'C_NAM' may benefit from use of the NOCOPY
      compiler hint

      518/3 PLW-06002: Unreachable code

Subprograms

BUILD_CHAIN_ROWS_TABLE	CHECK_REDUNDANT_PKEY	REPAIR_REDUNDANT_PKEY
BUILD_EXCEPTIONS_TABLE	NUMBER_TO_UROWID

BUILD_CHAIN_ROWS_TABLE

Creates a table into which references to the chained rows for an index-organized table can be placed using the ANALYZE command dbms_iot.build_chain_rows_table( owner IN VARCHAR2, iot_name IN VARCHAR2, chainrow_table_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'IOT_CHAINED_ROWS');

conn sys@pdbdev as sysdba

      

      @?\rdbms\admin\dbmsiotc.sql

      

      GRANT execute ON dbms_iot TO uwclass;

      

      conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev

      

      CREATE TABLE iottab (

      person_id   NUMBER(5),

      dept_name   VARCHAR2(20),

      project_no  VARCHAR2(20),

      time_worked NUMBER(4,2),

      PRIMARY KEY(person_id, dept_name, project_no))

      ORGANIZATION INDEX pctthreshold 10 OVERFLOW;

      

      exec dbms_iot.build_chain_rows_table('UWCLASS','IOTTAB');

      

      desc iottab

      

      desc iot_chained_rows

BUILD_EXCEPTIONS_TABLE

Creates an exception table into which rows of an index-organized table that violate a constraint can be placed dbms_iot.build_exceptions_table( owner IN VARCHAR2, iot_name IN VARCHAR2, exceptions_table_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'IOT_EXCEPTIONS');

conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev

      

      exec dbms_iot.build_exceptions_table('UWCLASS', 'IOTTAB');

      

      desc iottab

      

      desc iot_exceptions

      

      INSERT INTO iottab

      (person_id, dept_name, project_no, time_worked)

      VALUES

      (1, 'IT', '110A', 6.5);

      

      INSERT INTO iottab

      (person_id, dept_name, project_no, time_worked)

      VALUES

      (1, 'IT', '201C', 1.5);

      

      INSERT INTO iottab

      (person_id, dept_name, project_no, time_worked)

      VALUES

      (2, 'IT', '110A', 8.5);

      

      COMMIT;

      

      SELECT * FROM iottab;

      

      ALTER TABLE iottab

      ADD CONSTRAINT cc_iottab_max_time_worked

      CHECK (time_worked <= 8.0);

      

      SELECT * FROM iot_exceptions;

      

      ALTER TABLE iottab

      ADD CONSTRAINT cc_iottab_max_time_worked

      CHECK (time_worked <= 8.0)

      EXCEPTIONS INTO iot_exceptions;

      

      SELECT * FROM iot_exceptions;

CHECK_REDUNDANT_PKEY

Check for redundant primary key entry dbms_iot.check_redundant_pkey( table_owner IN VARCHAR2, table_name IN VARCHAR2, index_owner IN VARCHAR2, index_name IN VARCHAR2, uniqueness IN VARCHAR2, nblk_uniq IN BINARY_INTEGER DEFAULT NULL) RETURN VARCHAR2;

conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev

      

      CREATE TABLE labor_hour (

      WORK_DATE   DATE,

      EMPLOYEE_NO VARCHAR2(8),

      CONSTRAINT pk_labor_hour

      PRIMARY KEY (work_date, employee_no))

      ORGANIZATION INDEX;

      

      INSERT INTO labor_hour VALUES (TRUNC(SYSDATE), 1);

      INSERT INTO labor_hour VALUES (TRUNC(SYSDATE), 2);

      INSERT INTO labor_hour VALUES (TRUNC(SYSDATE), 3);

      INSERT INTO labor_hour VALUES (TRUNC(SYSDATE), 1);

      

      set serveroutput on

      

      DECLARE

       retval VARCHAR2(100);

      BEGIN

        retval := dbms_iot.check_redundant_pkey('UWCLASS', 'LABOR_HOUR', 'UWCLASS', 'PK_LABOR_HOUR', 'UNIQUE');

        dbms_output.put_line(retval);

      END;

      /

NUMBER_TO_UROWID

Undocumented
Overload 1 dbms_iot.number_to_urowid( n IN NUMBER, len OUT INTEGER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

DECLARE

       vLen INTEGER;

       vRet VARCHAR2(30);

      BEGIN

        vRet := dbms_iot.number_to_urowid(42, vLen);

        dbms_output.put_line(vRet);

        dbms_output.put_line(TO_CHAR(vLen));

      END;

      /

Overload 2 dbms_iot.number_to_urowid(n IN NUMBER) RETURN VARCHAR2;

SELECT dbms_iot.number_to_urowid(42);

Overload 3 dbms_iot.number_to_urowid(n sys.ODCINumberList) RETURN sys.ODCIRidList;

TBD

REPAIR_REDUNDANT_PKEY

Repair redundant primary key entry dbms_iot.repair_redundant_pkey(schema IN VARCHAR2);

exec dbms_iot.repair_redundant_pkey('UWCLASS');