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January 12, 2023 Uncategorized

The podcast is back for 2023!

Normally I don’t dedicate a post to just a podcast episode, because you can see them all here, but since

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January 25, 2022 Uncategorized

New Podcast Episode – The Optimizer with Nigel Bayliss

No topic quite gets emotions rolling as much as the Oracle Query Optimizer. The fact that a piece of software

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October 19, 2021 Uncategorized

New podcast episode! ORACLE-BASE enters the chat

What happens when you get two mates who haven’t had a chance to catch up at a conference like they

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September 6, 2021 Uncategorized

New Podcast Episode! The most important skill you need

If you’re an Oracle developer, pause for a second and ponder this question: What is the most important skill you

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August 9, 2021 Uncategorized

New podcast episode! Testing and breaking things

I’m a developer. I wrote code, compile code, and ….. then I throw it over the fence to the testers

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July 6, 2021 Uncategorized

New Podcast Episode! Lets talk about SQL Tuning

There is a million books, blogs, presentations etc about SQL Tuning. But it’s time for a different perspective. SQL Tuning

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April 13, 2021 Uncategorized

New Podcast Episode! Every index is a bug

Every database has indexes…but should they? In this episode, lets consider a different proposition. What if the indexes you have

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March 11, 2021 Uncategorized

New podcast episode! Block internals

I need to be honest right up front here. I’ve aimed for the skies and only time will tell if

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February 12, 2021 Uncategorized

The podcast is go!

A few weeks back, I posted that I would give podcasting a trial. I’m thrilled to see that the response

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January 22, 2021 Uncategorized

New Year … new idea … new channel

I’ve done a lot of presentations over the years, written a ton of blog posts, and over the past  5

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