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New Podcast Episode! The most important skill you need

If you’re an Oracle developer, pause for a second and ponder this question: What is the most important skill you

(Familiar with case-insenstive collation already? Skip ahead to the “Side Effects”) A history of failed applications Before Oracle 12, a

I’m a developer. I wrote code, compile code, and ….. then I throw it over the fence to the testers

Oracle dinosaurs whoops I mean “experienced professionals” know that for decades we have used the DBMS_UTILITY package to obtain the

I gave a talk at Kscope21 yesterday about common mistakes that we make during the database development cycle. To kick

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

One of the most common recommendations I’ll make to customers who post questions on AskTom is “Install APEX even if

TL;DR: SUM is NOT broken A quandary from a work colleague this morning about rolling totals via the SUM aggregation

A while back we had an AskTom question about arbitrary length addition and subtraction, and so I whipped a small

We’ve have all seen those TV crime shows where the psychiatrist does word association games, such as: Question: “Blue?” Answer: