Learning is not a spectator sport

dbms_hs_passthrough–the magic package

This is a package that you can call, that does not exist in the database. I found this out after

I think this feature came around ages ago (10.2?) but I’m still always impressed by it every time I use

I have a large partitioned table called TXN and I want to find the most recent transaction recorded, where the

Recently when trying to drop a user, I got an error that seemed unrelated to the act of dropping the

RIP. A fine Oracle man.

This is a bug encountered at a client site, and the test script was carefully prepared by Mark Hoxey (http://markhoxey.wordpress.com/)

21 kilometers …. all up hill. Just up…and up….and up All on a bicycle

I did three talks for the tasmanian user group. Its a small user group, but a credit to the committee

I’ll be doing a talk on Flashback on Feb 29. Details below – hope to see you there. Where:

I’m in Hobart Tasmania for a half day on Monday (Feb 29). If you’re in town, please drop in and