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DBMS_OUTPUT … A (formatting) love story

What happens when you want to serenade your partner with a romantic ditty, but you’re a database professional as well?

So I started all of this by talking about how PLSQL is going to give you a performance boost, just

So after my post yesterday about PL/SQL being a no-brainer to get an easy boost to application performance, there was

I rarely blog about PLSQL for a very simple reason. It quickly becomes like Halloween night because all the ghouls

Handling default values on columns has been an age old problem that we solved in 12c with extensions to the

Most of us with any kind of longevity in the Oracle world will remember the days when we wrote our

So I tweeted this out on Friday and this reflects one of my joys with working with Oracle technology. The

No topic quite gets emotions rolling as much as the Oracle Query Optimizer. The fact that a piece of software

Just a quick word of warning on a cool feature of SQL*Plus that came along from 18c onwards. I’ve posted

Security eh? It is just one of those little things that is good to have in a database. The “problem”