patching – Learning is not a spectator sport

Quick Tip on Datapatch

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

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

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