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November 9, 2022 Uncategorized

From stateful to stateless PL/SQL

I’ve done a lot of talks mainly around the tremendous performance benefits you can get just by employing a little

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November 2, 2022 Uncategorized

A Security Disaster

There has been a lot of coverage here in Australia recently about one of our popular telco’s getting hacked due

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November 1, 2022 Uncategorized

The Halloween Pumpkins of Terror

For some giggles this Halloween, over on Twitter I tweeted some worst practices each hour during Halloween in the guise

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October 27, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld is done!

Just a quick post with a few highlights from CloudWorld, but really this is all about getting you the slides

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October 20, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld – Thursday Thrills

OK, lets close this week on a strong note with another bunch of awesome tech sessions on the database, APEX

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October 19, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld – Wednesday Avawanche

Well my alliteration puns might not be so good, but the volume of cool stuff on Wednesday at CloudWorld is

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October 11, 2022 Uncategorized

Easy data access from Excel #JoelKallmanDay

I suspect Joel would have kittens if he knew I would use the appreciation day to talk about Excel instead

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October 6, 2022 Uncategorized

Quick Tip on Datapatch

When I patch my databases through the various Release Updates, I normally do a blog post showing how easy and

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October 5, 2022 Uncategorized

CloudWorld – Tuesday Turmoil

I took a quick glance at the schedule for Tuesday for CloudWorld and realised I’m going to need to clone

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September 29, 2022 Uncategorized

What are the Squirrels doing? SQL fun and games

Finding interesting data to improve your SQL skills can be a nuisance. There are of course plenty of freely available

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