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September 9, 2022 Uncategorized

INTERVAL partitions in multiple tablespaces

When the “STORE IN” clause is mentioned for partitioned tables, most people’s mind turn toward hash partitioning, because the usage

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August 17, 2022 Uncategorized

The DBMS_REDEFINITION trap

Here’s something to be careful with when it comes to using DBMS_REDEFINITION. Let’s start with the following scenario. I have

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August 10, 2022 Uncategorized

Natural Keys versus Surrogate Keys….Here we are again!

Well….that blew up! 😀 Last week I published a video (which you can watch below if you haven’t seen it)

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July 14, 2022 Uncategorized

Juice up your JSON on Autonomous

As many readers will be aware, we introduced a cool new JSON datatype in 21c which offers more features and

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June 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Comparing two database objects for differences

Ask an Oracle practitioner what DBMS_METADATA is used for, and they’ll (correctly) tell you it used to retrieve the DDL

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May 30, 2022 Uncategorized

Recycling saves the planet but maybe not your database

The recyclebin is a very cool feature in the Oracle Database, and a great “Get of our jail free” card

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May 25, 2022 Uncategorized

Is my table marked for archive?

In 12c, we introduced a feature call Row Archival, which is a means of integrating typical archival models that we

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May 13, 2022 Uncategorized

Version 7 was so much better…

Full disclosure: This is a rant post. If you’re not into ranting and pontificating, perhaps best to move along now

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April 22, 2022 Uncategorized

Implementing dynamic partitions AND subpartitions

One of the cool things to come out of the partitioning option many moons ago was the feature known as

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April 6, 2022 Uncategorized

DBMS_METADATA for INDEXES

Just a quick tip on using DBMS_METADATA that caught me out the other day. If you have a table and

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