dba – Learning is not a spectator sport

APEX 21.1.1 – the first round of improvements

I posted late last year about how to query APEX patch updates directly from the database. Now that APEX 21

There are plenty of tools out there that you can use to get DDL scripts for various objects in the

If you have worked with Oracle technology you will be familiar with Oracle Magazine. For many of us, it was

Generally speaking, if you have a giant chunk of data over “here”, and you need to load it into a

It’s a return to the focus of “Back to basics” in my latest episode. Pick up a reference book and

Why interval partitioning is cool Before 11g, partitioning a table immediately stepped up the responsibilities of the database administrator, because

Glance through any text book, blog post, video tutorial etc on the topic of database indexes and you’ll typically chance

Just a quick post today to inspire you to look further than the standard options for performance monitoring. Quiz most

Every database has indexes…but should they? In this episode, lets consider a different proposition. What if the indexes you have

I need to be honest right up front here. I’ve aimed for the skies and only time will tell if