Learning is not a spectator sport

Careful with SQL*Plus and SQL_ID feedback

Just a quick word of warning on a cool feature of SQL*Plus that came along from 18c onwards. I’ve posted

Security eh? It is just one of those little things that is good to have in a database. The “problem”

The very name of the product – Application Express (APEX) – suggests that this is a tool solely for building

Last year I started my 2020 wrap up with “With all the challenges of 2020…” with a perhaps overly optimistic

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the world, Many developers were stirring, as a nightmare unfurled. The log4j

Just a re-post of something I put on StackOverflow last year so I can refer back to it easily. What

Just a quick tip for this post today. I had a question come in asking how to detect whether a

I published a video a few days ago on the various tools you can use to unload data out of

In last weeks’ Office Hours session, I posted an “impossible” challenge to two of the most well credentialed Oracle community

A phrase I’ve often used when discussing database design is “insurance policy”, namely, when I talk about adding CHECK constraints,