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New LINESIZE settings for SQLPlus

Anyone that has used SQL Plus since its inception will be familiar with this frustration: There is my window, with

I had a fun request come in from a colleague the other day. They had a simple list of fully

There was a time, many moons ago when CLOB, BLOB and BFILE did not exist as data types. So if

Kris Rice made mention on Twitter about the free (but limited lifetime) IP address to Country mappings that you can

I love Active Session History (ASH) data because a lot of the work I’ve done in my consulting life was

SQL loader is a very cool utility that has existed for a long time within Oracle to load flat files

Looking for that catchy title for your next presentation ? I took the first word from the title of 1000

Just a quick note to give the supporting collateral to the latest episode of AskTOM TV. The question I tackled

I can’t actually remember how many OpenWorld conferences I have attended. At a guess it would be around 7 or

I’m thrilled to announce the “formal” addition of globalization and characterset guru Sergiusz Wolicki to the AskTOM team. I say