12c – Learning is not a spectator sport

Faster software installations

Just a quick tip today thanks to the one of the readers on my blog. If you’re installing Oracle 12c

One of the talks I gave recently on the Groundbreaker Yatra tour was on the changes that arrive with the

I had a friend point this one out to me recently. They use DBMS_JOB to allow some “fire and forget”

You’ve got a huge table right? Massive! Immense! And then something bad happens. You get asked to remove one of

Just a quick post to clear up some confusion that can be seen on the partial indexing capabilities in Oracle

This question came to me over Twitter, so I thought I’d whip out a quick post on it Yes,

This one caught me out – I was racing around looking for bugs, or parameter files, or hidden settings that

One of the cool features in 12c is the automatic collection of optimizer statistics when a table is either created

Lets say I’ve been reading about schema separation, and thus I am going to have a schema which owns all

I did a little demo of sharing a tablespace between two databases a few days back – you can see