19c – Learning is not a spectator sport

Compression default settings

If you are loading a data warehouse or similar environment where your default approach would probably be to compress all

One of the very cool features we’ve been talking about for 20c is SQL Macros. But you no longer need

The tech world is a big and varied place, so whilst there are some database customers running on 19c and

Here’s a “gotcha” brought to my attention by one of our AskTOM readers. I’ve mentioned in the past that DBMS_JOB,

If I gave you a telephone book and asked you to tell me how many distinct street names are present

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