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June 18, 2020 Uncategorized

Take care with Read-Only partitions in 18c

The ability for part of a table to be read-only and other parts of the same table to allow full

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June 15, 2020 Uncategorized

Upgrading from 19.6 to 19.7 on Windows

I must say this Release Update (RU) was probably the smoothest I’ve ever done. Obviously you should always read the

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April 30, 2020 Uncategorized

Why you might add columns to external tables

Let me start with the idiotic part first. That part would be…. me! I’ll create an external table which reads

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March 24, 2020 Uncategorized

Tightened security in 20c for Oracle maintained accounts

If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud,

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May 28, 2019 Uncategorized

DBMS_JOB – the joy of transactions

This is a followup to yesterdays post on DBMS_JOB and is critical if you’re upgrading to 19c soon. Mike Dietrich

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February 15, 2019 Uncategorized

Use the features available!

Advance warning: This post is a just another normal Friday morning rant. If you’re not interested in my pontificating, move

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February 5, 2019 Uncategorized

LISTAGG hits prime time

It’s a simple requirement. We want to transform this: SQL> select deptno, ename 2 from emp 3 order by 1,2;

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