How to determine the ascii value of a specific character within a row?

How to determine the ascii value of a specific character within a row?
Let's say we are searching for the character § inside the DB.



SQL> select dump('§') from dual;

DUMP('§')
---------------------
Typ=96 Len=2: 194,167

SQL> select * from k where col1 like '%'||chr(194)||'%'||chr(167)||'%';

COL1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
§

Thanks to the site below:

https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:2143700800346224648

How often are the archived logs generated?

SQL> set line 200 pages 80
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='dd-mon-yy hh24:mi:ss';

Session altered.

Hourly report:


  select trunc(COMPLETION_TIME,'HH') Hour,thread# , count(*) Archives from v$archived_log
  where COMPLETION_TIME > sysdate-1
  group by trunc(COMPLETION_TIME,'HH'),thread#  order by 1;




HOUR                  THREAD#   ARCHIVES
------------------ ---------- ----------
07-mar-17 15:00:00          1          3
07-mar-17 16:00:00          1          6
07-mar-17 17:00:00          1          6
07-mar-17 18:00:00          1          9
07-mar-17 19:00:00          1         19
07-mar-17 20:00:00          1          5
07-mar-17 21:00:00          1         20
07-mar-17 22:00:00          1          8
07-mar-17 23:00:00          1          4
08-mar-17 00:00:00          1          4
08-mar-17 01:00:00          1         19
08-mar-17 02:00:00          1         15
08-mar-17 03:00:00          1         25
08-mar-17 04:00:00          1         10
08-mar-17 05:00:00          1          5
08-mar-17 06:00:00          1         12
08-mar-17 07:00:00          1          4
08-mar-17 08:00:00          1         16
08-mar-17 09:00:00          1          6
08-mar-17 10:00:00          1         20
08-mar-17 11:00:00          1          6
08-mar-17 12:00:00          1          6
08-mar-17 13:00:00          1         19
08-mar-17 14:00:00          1          7
08-mar-17 15:00:00          1          3

25 rows selected.

Daily report:

 select trunc(COMPLETION_TIME,'DD') Day,thread# , count(*) Archives from v$archived_log
  where COMPLETION_TIME > sysdate-10
  group by trunc(COMPLETION_TIME,'DD'),thread#  order by 1
/

 Another question would be, how many archived logs per day are generated, on average?

On average we generate 77 logs/day.

SQL> l

  select avg(count(*)) Archives from v$archived_log

  where COMPLETION_TIME > sysdate-100

  group by trunc(COMPLETION_TIME,'DD')

SQL> /

  ARCHIVES

----------

77.0566038



Update:
Querying v$log_history produces a nice table:

http://ajwatblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/redo-logs-switching-frequency.html


In case the archivelog mode is OFF:

select count(*),trunc(FIRST_TIME,'hh')
from v$log_history
group by trunc(FIRST_TIME,'hh')
order by 2

/

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Table altered.

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