19c – Learning is not a spectator sport

Upgrading…Its Time!

Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician who rose to power in the 1970s with the campaign slogan “It’s Time!”. Politics

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

I must say this Release Update (RU) was probably the smoothest I’ve ever done. Obviously you should always read the

There has always been a bit of a Catch-22 with some of the really cool options in the Oracle Database.

Let me start with the idiotic part first. That part would be…. me! I’ll create an external table which reads

If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud,

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

There is an odd contradiction that we all encounter for most databases, especially if they are predominantly used during the

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”