-- acceptance-sql.txt by philg@mit.edu and jsc@arsdigita.com -- (Philip Greenspun and Jin Choi) -- SQL commands to test an Oracle installation -- for adequate privileges and capacity -- run as the same user as the Web user -- creating a table create table foo ( foo_key integer primary key, random varchar(1000) ); -- creating an index create index foo_on_random on foo ( random ); -- inserting some rows insert into foo values (1, '1'); insert into foo values (2, '2'); insert into foo values (3, '3'); insert into foo values (4, '4'); insert into foo values (5, '5'); insert into foo values (6, '6'); insert into foo values (7, '7'); insert into foo values (8, '8'); insert into foo values (9, '9'); insert into foo values (10, '10'); insert into foo values (11, null); insert into foo values (12, null); insert into foo values (13, null); insert into foo values (14, null); insert into foo values (15, null); insert into foo values (16, null); insert into foo values (17, null); insert into foo values (18, null); insert into foo values (19, null); insert into foo values (20, null); -- create another table to work with create table bar as select foo_key + 1 as bar_key, random from foo; -- joins select b.random from foo f, bar b where f.foo_key = b.bar_key and f.random like '3%'; -- update update foo set foo_key = foo_key + 100 where random is null; -- should return 10 select count(*) from foo where foo_key > 100; -- create a sequence create sequence foo_sequence start with 200; -- test whether truncate works truncate table bar; drop table bar; -- test 1) whether has privileges to create a procedure -- and 2) whether rollback segments are adequately sized -- create a pl/sql procedure create or replace procedure thrash_database(v_number_of_rows IN integer) AS i integer; BEGIN FOR i IN 1..v_number_of_rows LOOP insert into foo (foo_key, random) values (foo_sequence.nextval, 'abcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghijabcdefghij'); END LOOP; END thrash_database; / show errors -- we think any Oracle installation ought to be able to handle -- 100,000 rows of 500 bytes each execute thrash_database(100000); select count(*) from foo; commit; delete from foo; commit; drop table foo; drop sequence foo_sequence; drop procedure thrash_database; -- make sure that NLS_DATE_FORMAT is correct by -- seeing that the following command returns -- YYYY-MM-DD (e.g., 1999-05-22) select sysdate from dual;