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May 29, 2023 Uncategorized

Why I blog

If you are hoping for a long, carefully reasoned, philosophical dissertation on why I make blog posts..well, you have come

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May 26, 2023 Uncategorized

Bringing Multimedia back into 19c!

Many people were not super impressed when the following announcement came out in Oracle 19C Rest assured it is not

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May 24, 2023 Uncategorized

Some "must-have" ideas for your next meetup

In these post-COVID times where airlines, trying to make a quick buck after the troublesome times of the past few

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May 22, 2023 Uncategorized

Adding APEX 23.1 to your Database Free VM

With so much excitement about the release 23c Database Free, there is a good chance you have raced out, downloaded

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May 21, 2023 Uncategorized

Is "fragmentation" still a dirty word?

There was a time in the past where whenever anyone used the term “fragmentation” they would draw the ire of

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May 2, 2023 Uncategorized

Can you pass the EMPTY SCHEMA test?

I had a question come in recently on AskTom and (paraphrasing) it ran like this: “Why isn’t my materialized view

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April 19, 2023 Uncategorized

Sample schemas are now easier than ever

A couple of years back I wrote a post talking about how we wanted to publish the sample scripts in

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April 11, 2023 Uncategorized

Better error messages means less errors

Although not strictly attached to the 23c release of the database, one of the projects that is ongoing inside Oracle

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April 4, 2023 Uncategorized

23c for Developers is HERE

23c is HERE and for the first time, Oracle is delivering before anything else, a free developers version. Truth be

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March 7, 2023 Uncategorized

Avoiding INSERT glitches with SQL*Plus and SQLcl

Sometimes in data centric applications, we want to store metadata (such as HTML or CSS or other such text) in

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