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January 25, 2023 Uncategorized

SQL engine and PL/SQL functions

A common pattern I see in database code is the use of a PL/SQL package to hold constants to be

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January 12, 2023 Uncategorized

The podcast is back for 2023!

Normally I don’t dedicate a post to just a podcast episode, because you can see them all here, but since

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January 10, 2023 Uncategorized

ORDS upgrades are so easy

Just a quick blog post today showing how easy it was for me to upgrade from ORDS 22.1 to the

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January 6, 2023 Uncategorized

Audit trails and the importance of TIMEZONE

I threw this little puzzle out on Twitter just before the New Year It was a little bit mischievous of

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January 2, 2023 Uncategorized

TEMP is a four letter word

Happy New Year to all! With the next long term release (23c) probably due some time this year, let’s start

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December 19, 2022 Uncategorized

2022 – the year in review

Well, its been quite a year 🙂 Probably the highlight for me, and I’m sure for many others, was the

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December 6, 2022 Uncategorized

Faster operations with CLOBs

Somewhere around version 9 (maybe before, maybe later…all so long ago 😀) the distinction between CLOB and VARCHAR2 became less

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November 30, 2022 Uncategorized

The cost of DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE

I had an inquiry about the performance of DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE today from a customer. Whilst the utility (as the name suggests)

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November 23, 2022 Uncategorized

Google-like search for your entire application

I published a video today showing how to use a Text index to pick up search terms from multiple tables

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November 11, 2022 Uncategorized

I did not write this blog post

In fact…no-one wrote this blog post! Here’s a little bit of fun for you. I was doing my normal doom

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