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November 10, 2020 Uncategorized

Faster software installations

Just a quick tip today thanks to the one of the readers on my blog. If you’re installing Oracle 12c

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March 24, 2020 Uncategorized

Tightened security in 20c for Oracle maintained accounts

If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud,

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December 12, 2019 Uncategorized

dbca silent mode – Windows

Just a quick tip that often catches me out. If you are like me, you have long since tired of

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April 10, 2019 Uncategorized

Application Express 19.1

AskTOM moved to Application Express 19.1 without any major issues last weekend. That in itself is a nice endorsement for

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August 27, 2018 Uncategorized

18c database creation on Windows

Hopefully you’ve followed my very simple and easy guide to downloading the 18c database software for Windows. But of course,

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August 24, 2018 Uncategorized

18c Database installation on Windows

If you’re a Windows enterprise, or you want to run your 18c database on your Windows laptop/desktop for research and

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July 24, 2018 Uncategorized

18.3 As easy as 1…2…3

Well, finally it’s here! 18c for on-premise installation so the world can all get stuck into the cool new features

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July 3, 2018 Uncategorized

Standard Edition–different optimizer but still cool

One cool technique that the optimizer can employ is the BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS method to take advantage of B-tree

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January 22, 2018 Uncategorized

Brand new year ? Brand new to installing Oracle ?

If you’ve stumbled across this blog trying to get started with a local installation of Oracle database for some personal

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