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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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July 8, 2022 Uncategorized

PL/SQL – choosing the BEST data type

Just a little bit of Friday fun with PL/SQL data types for this post. Let’s explore the performance differences when

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July 7, 2022 Uncategorized

Kscope 22 – the joy of in-person conferences

Rather than bore you with a lengthy tome about the event, I’d thought I would summarise the week with pictures

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June 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Comparing two database objects for differences

Ask an Oracle practitioner what DBMS_METADATA is used for, and they’ll (correctly) tell you it used to retrieve the DDL

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May 30, 2022 Uncategorized

Recycling saves the planet but maybe not your database

The recyclebin is a very cool feature in the Oracle Database, and a great “Get of our jail free” card

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May 25, 2022 Uncategorized

Is my table marked for archive?

In 12c, we introduced a feature call Row Archival, which is a means of integrating typical archival models that we

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May 13, 2022 Uncategorized

Version 7 was so much better…

Full disclosure: This is a rant post. If you’re not into ranting and pontificating, perhaps best to move along now

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