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From Product X to SQL Developer

I recently worked at a company that used “Product X” for all of it SQL and PL/SQL activities. There’s no

grrr… SQL> drop tablespace MY_TSPACE including contents; drop tablespace MY_TSPACE including contents * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred

This feature seems a no-brainer once you’re on 12c. After all, why would you want your global temporary tables to

There’s a somewhat sour discussion going on based attached to the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZW-uLb52xk Whether you agree or disagree with

I’m an Oracle dinosaur, so I like using SQL Plus. Its simple, fast, comes with every version and installation and

I don’t travel as frequently as some people do, but with OpenWorld and various Oracle conferences each year, I definitely

In April 2008 (wow, does time fly!) I used the following picture in my “11g features for Developers” presentation at

Its not a hard sell to convince anyone that a whopping huge great chunk of compressed column-based memory is going

We currently are working on a bug with Oracle Support with dbms_stats in 12.1.0.2. That may be the subject of

Every …. single …. time…. Why does index monitoring make me scratch my head and charge off to google so