Learning is not a spectator sport

Its not about the outage

My Oracle Support had a fairly lengthy outage today right in the middle of the Australian business day. But I’m

The OUGN conference (held on a cruise ship) was an awesome experience and so professionally run by the committee. I

The OUGN user conference (on a cruise ship!) starts next week and I’m presenting there. From all reports, this is

Consider the following simple setup SQL> create table t ( x int, b blob ); Table created. SQL> declare 2

A long time ago … a long long time ago (http://www.oracledba.co.uk/tips/merge_speed.htm) I wrote that MERGE works best over update and

Thanks to everyone that came along. The slides can be found here

I was doing some work for a client, and LOB processing seemed incredibly slow. After some poking around, it appears

In April I’m off to that famous conference that so many speak about with affection… The conference on a cruise

Here is my partitioned table SQL> desc PAR Name Null? Type —————————– ——– ———— X NUMBER(38) Y NUMBER(38) and it

We’ve all done that common administrative task of: – find the HWM in a datafile – resize the datafile down