Learning is not a spectator sport

ORA-65131 grrrr

So…the future is container databases ? Cool ! I’ll create all my databases as container databases….I’m so happy….until SQL> CREATE

Yeah yeah, you can argue with me about backward compatibility, but I’m so glad someone snuck this into 12c… 11.2

With every release of Oracle, more and more power comes to the optimizer. Many of these are new features (such

My friend Kyle wrote a blog piece a while back http://www.kylehailey.com/what-delphix-does-in-1-minute-22-seconds/ Now, not to criticise Delphix (in fact,the opposite –

declare n number := ….; tmp number; begin tmp := n – ( bitand ((n / 2) ,3681400539)) – (bitand

It’s not uncommon for people on one hand to expound the functionality, performance and features of Oracle, whilst on the

The world is obsessed with I/O nowadays…. This is understandable – we’re in the middle of a pioneering period for

I work for a company that provides betting to consumers in Australia… In Australia, the three biggest days for betting

The amazing coordination of so many things: – feeding 60,000 delegates goes off without a hitch. The food is not