patching – Learning is not a spectator sport

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I must say this Release Update (RU) was probably the smoothest I’ve ever done. Obviously you should always read the

I’ve been debugging an issue within an APEX application and wanted to make sure that my local installation was at