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Time zones, blockchain and stopping hackers

I posted a few months ago about the availability of blockchain tables in 19c, and a fundamental mantra with anything

Oracle dinosaurs whoops I mean “experienced professionals” know that for decades we have used the DBMS_UTILITY package to obtain the

Just a quick tip today on doing a “reset” on your optimizer environment. SQL Plan Baselines are an awesome tool

I tweeted about a particular bug fix that interests me for 19.11, namely a critical fix for Flashback Data Archive

I tweeted out this pic yesterday which suggested that by running a SQL query, I could magically keep my OPatch

There is a million books, blogs, presentations etc about SQL Tuning. But it’s time for a different perspective. SQL Tuning

AskTom regular Rajeshwaran Jeyabal posted an interesting comment a few days ago about the use of CURSOR_SHARING when it comes

Your pre-reading warning: I’m quoting some tweets in this post, tweets that definitely contain some NSFW language. The success of

I gave a talk at Kscope21 yesterday about common mistakes that we make during the database development cycle. To kick

I posted late last year about how to query APEX patch updates directly from the database. Now that APEX 21