Learning is not a spectator sport

New podcast episode! Block internals

I need to be honest right up front here. I’ve aimed for the skies and only time will tell if

I was helping out a customer today with what they thought was a bug in DBMS_METADATA. They were using it

In 12c, there was much rejoicing when VARCHAR2 columns could be extended from beyond their current 4000 byte limit to

I made a interesting discovery earlier this week when I was doing some analysis for some AskTom database procedures when

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

One of the most commonly hit questions on AskTom is how to count the number of work days (Mon =>

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

As I write this, the moment you do a browser search for “blockchain”, the last thing you will get a