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February 21, 2023 Uncategorized

A key difference between TP and TPURGENT

When you are using Autonomous Transaction Processing database, as well as the LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH services that are also

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February 2, 2023 Uncategorized

The new forums

New year and I knew you want some new news about new forums!  (That’s a lot of “new” 😀) I’ll

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January 12, 2023 Uncategorized

The podcast is back for 2023!

Normally I don’t dedicate a post to just a podcast episode, because you can see them all here, but since

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January 10, 2023 Uncategorized

ORDS upgrades are so easy

Just a quick blog post today showing how easy it was for me to upgrade from ORDS 22.1 to the

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January 6, 2023 Uncategorized

Audit trails and the importance of TIMEZONE

I threw this little puzzle out on Twitter just before the New Year It was a little bit mischievous of

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November 30, 2022 Uncategorized

The cost of DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE

I had an inquiry about the performance of DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE today from a customer. Whilst the utility (as the name suggests)

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November 23, 2022 Uncategorized

Google-like search for your entire application

I published a video today showing how to use a Text index to pick up search terms from multiple tables

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November 2, 2022 Uncategorized

A Security Disaster

There has been a lot of coverage here in Australia recently about one of our popular telco’s getting hacked due

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November 1, 2022 Uncategorized

The Halloween Pumpkins of Terror

For some giggles this Halloween, over on Twitter I tweeted some worst practices each hour during Halloween in the guise

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October 6, 2022 Uncategorized

Quick Tip on Datapatch

When I patch my databases through the various Release Updates, I normally do a blog post showing how easy and

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