Learning is not a spectator sport
Connor McDonald on SQL and the Oracle Database
Tag: installation
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 APEX, given that the AskTOM application dates back nearly 20 years to 2001, and predates even the existence of APEX. The only fix that…
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, software on its own is not much use – we need a database! So let’s get cracking and create one. Using the Start menu…
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 education, then there has been some good news this week. The software is now available to you on the OTN network page. Here’s a…
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 of the latest release on their own laptops At least that is what I’ll be doing! Naturally as soon as I heard the…
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 indexes in a means that we would normally associate with a bitmap index. This can be particularly useful with multiple predicates on individually indexed…
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 development, then firstly, welcome! Secondly, it can be a little daunting to get up to speed, so here’s a little video that will walk…
