dba – Learning is not a spectator sport

MAX_STRING_SIZE – stretching the dictionary

This post cycles back too some other historical posts of mine related to max_string_size and the fact that the data

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

We’ve all been there … You’re trying to save some changes to the database, and no matter what you try,

This question got posed on Twitter today I answered briefly on Twitter, but I thought I should give it some

Man, it gets my goat when people start pontificating nonsense on Twitter. Yeah, I know, I know, I shouldn’t get

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

Anyone that has used SQL Plus since its inception will be familiar with this frustration: There is my window, with

When the scheduler came into existence in Oracle 10g, there was a cool API call that could be used to

A quick tip just in time for Christmas I logged on to my database this morning, and things just didn’t