upgrade – Learning is not a spectator sport

Drop all baselines

Just a quick tip today on doing a “reset” on your optimizer environment. SQL Plan Baselines are an awesome tool

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

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

As always, you should read the Installation/Upgrade manual from top to bottom before upgrading any piece of software, and be

Here’s a “gotcha” brought to my attention by one of our AskTOM readers. I’ve mentioned in the past that DBMS_JOB,

As always, you should follow the instructions in the README.html that comes with the Release Update, but because I know

Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician who rose to power in the 1970s with the campaign slogan “It’s Time!”. Politics

This post cycles back too some other historical posts of mine related to max_string_size and the fact that the data

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