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September 27, 2022 Uncategorized

Patching just keeps getting easier

After attending a talk by Mike Dietrich at the DOAG conference, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that in 21c,

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September 26, 2022 Uncategorized

Can you FLASHBACK an IDENTITY column?

I’ve just got back from the DOAG conference, and what a fantastic event it was. I know I’m considered a

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September 9, 2022 Uncategorized

INTERVAL partitions in multiple tablespaces

When the “STORE IN” clause is mentioned for partitioned tables, most people’s mind turn toward hash partitioning, because the usage

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August 26, 2022 Uncategorized

XMLTABLE and data “corruption”

One of the cool things with the native SQL handling of complex datatypes is the ability to take something like

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August 17, 2022 Uncategorized

The DBMS_REDEFINITION trap

Here’s something to be careful with when it comes to using DBMS_REDEFINITION. Let’s start with the following scenario. I have

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August 10, 2022 Uncategorized

Natural Keys versus Surrogate Keys….Here we are again!

Well….that blew up! 😀 Last week I published a video (which you can watch below if you haven’t seen it)

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August 8, 2022 Uncategorized

A simple benchmark harness

At my physical design talk at this year’s Yatra tour in India, one of the demos I do is multiple

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August 5, 2022 Uncategorized

Powerpoint hack for tech presenters

Often when you are building a slides for a presentation you need to animate something on screen to show its

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July 14, 2022 Uncategorized

Juice up your JSON on Autonomous

As many readers will be aware, we introduced a cool new JSON datatype in 21c which offers more features and

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July 12, 2022 Uncategorized

Digging deeper into SQL under APEX

For the many cases, simply having an EXPLAIN PLAN function will do the job when it comes to tuning SQL.

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