Learning is not a spectator sport

Free space requirements for ALTER TABLE

One of the very cool features from 12.2 onwards is that the vast majority of segment operations that require rewrite

A few weeks back, I posted that I would give podcasting a trial. I’m thrilled to see that the response

There has always been that odd conflict between the language you use for SQL versus the language you use for

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Slow down there….Take a breath. Because if you’ve read the title of this post and you’re already logging on to

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Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) performance tuning problem you’ll find spanning decades of blog posts when it comes to

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“It’s a dead language” people said. “There’s never anything new” people said. Well, let me serve those people a slice

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