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February 16, 2022 Uncategorized

INITRANS grabs a little more space

INITRANS defines how many concurrent transactions you can have within a single datablock for a segment (table, materialized view, etc).

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August 3, 2021 Uncategorized

Blockchain tables … the usage model

When you hear the word “blockchain” we typically think of the properties associated with tamper-proof information, with terminology such as

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September 7, 2017 Uncategorized

Please keep your foreign keys

I came across an interesting blog post the other day about whether databases should be (declaratively) enforcing the foreign key

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June 19, 2017 Uncategorized

It’s just bad code or bad design … most of the time

Some years ago I wrote an article for the UKOUG magazine called “Want a faster database – Take a drive

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Hi I'm Connor McDonald. I love playing with and exploring the Oracle database. But most of all I like seeing people succeed with the technology.
 
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