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Tag: 12c2
It’s all downhill past 30
Yes, it sounds like a lamentation of the aging process, and from my own experience, it is definitely true that the wheels started falling off for my knees, back and plenty of other body parts once I turned 30. But that is perhaps a…
Take care with regular expressions
In an Office Hours session a couple of months back, I covered an important change that comes to regular expressions once you upgrade to 12c Release 2. You can see the video covering the issue here: but for the TL;DR brigade reading this post:…
Attribute clustering….super cool
I’ve spoken about attribute clustering before here, here and here. So from that you can probably glean that I’m a fan. I recently spoke about an example of this as well during my AskTOM Office Hours session which you can watch below: After posting…
LOBs from afar
This has always been a nuisance. There you are – getting all the bells and whistles with LOBs…until a database link enters the room — — Database: DB11 — SQL> create table t ( id int, c clob ); Table created. SQL> insert into…
Interval partitioning just got better
Interval partitioning was a great feature when it arrived in version 11, because we no longer had to worry so much about ensuring partitions were available for new data when it arrived. Partitions would just be created on the fly as required. I’m not…
12c Release 2 – Transparent Data Encryption online !
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that even if you have incredibly stringent controls on user authentication, user authorisation etc, that wont save you if your data on disk is not encrypted. All you need is an errant tape, a missing disk,…
TimTams, Twelve Two, and tete-a-tete !
What do you do when you’re an Australian, you’re at Oracle Headquarters, 13,000 kms from home you bump into someone whilst grabbing a coffee Well…naturally, you lure them over with a packet of our famous Australian chocolate biscuits, grab a camera and have a…
Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is here !
Since OpenWorld 2016 when we first saw some of the cool features in Oracle Database 12c Release 2, many IT professionals out there have been exploring the release via our various cloud offerings, but if your organization has not yet embraced the cloud, then…
A 12.2 treat for the festive season
We’re being asked to store more and more data, yet keep backup windows, query performance and the like unchanged, no matter how much we store. As a result, more and more database shops are needing to partition their data. The problem is – partitioning…
