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Upgrading…Its Time!

Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician who rose to power in the 1970s with the campaign slogan “It’s Time!”. Politics

Today’s quick but important message is…don’t be lazy! Look….I get it If given the choice of typing: ’01-JUL-20′ or typing

It seems easy enough. An email pops through from your manager and he’s concerned about the space utilization in the

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