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October 6, 2022 Uncategorized

Quick Tip on Datapatch

When I patch my databases through the various Release Updates, I normally do a blog post showing how easy and

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September 27, 2022 Uncategorized

Patching just keeps getting easier

After attending a talk by Mike Dietrich at the DOAG conference, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that in 21c,

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October 7, 2021 Uncategorized

The HOST command in SQL*Plus and SQLcl

Truth be told, the original title of this post was going to be “How I lost an entire day debugging

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July 30, 2021 Uncategorized

Time zones, blockchain and stopping hackers

I posted a few months ago about the availability of blockchain tables in 19c, and a fundamental mantra with anything

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July 12, 2021 Uncategorized

19.11 Database Release Update

I tweeted about a particular bug fix that interests me for 19.11, namely a critical fix for Flashback Data Archive

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July 9, 2021 Uncategorized

Keeping OPatch updated with a simple SQL query

I tweeted out this pic yesterday which suggested that by running a SQL query, I could magically keep my OPatch

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June 15, 2021 Uncategorized

APEX 21.1.1 – the first round of improvements

I posted late last year about how to query APEX patch updates directly from the database. Now that APEX 21

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December 21, 2020 Uncategorized

The APEX PSE christmas present!

Its always nice to get fixes to bug just in time for christmas. A while ago I posted an example

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November 6, 2020 Uncategorized

Application Express – the PSE update

I published a post a couple of days ago about how due to the architecture of PL/SQL and hence Application

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November 5, 2020 Uncategorized

Updating my APEX 20.2 installation

One of (or should I say “another of”!) the very cool features of Application Express (APEX) is that by being

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