18c – Learning is not a spectator sport

Take care with Read-Only partitions in 18c

The ability for part of a table to be read-only and other parts of the same table to allow full

I had someone say to me at an event recently: “We’re are going to upgrade to 18c, because 19c is

A couple of years back (wow…time flies!) I made a video and a post about the de-support of UTL_FILE_DIR in

This is a followup to yesterdays post on DBMS_JOB and is critical if you’re upgrading to 19c soon. Mike Dietrich

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

Wow…it is nearly 4 years ago now that I wrote an article on connecting to the database via a wallet

Yes, I know it’s been awhile Yes, I know people have been angry at the delay But, can we put

Contrary to wild rumours on the internet, it was not a fear of the number 13 that led to a

Just a quick blog post from Wellington New Zealand where we have just wrapped up the 2018 APAC Groundbreakers tour.

One of the new features in 18c is the ability to ignore any optimizer hints in a session or