windows – 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

TL;DR: SUM is NOT broken A quandary from a work colleague this morning about rolling totals via the SUM aggregation

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

There are a few possible reasons why you might be one of those people why you might be using your

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

Just a quick tip that often catches me out. If you are like me, you have long since tired of

There are plenty of blog posts about using the pre-processor facility in external tables to get OS level information available

My last post was about patching my home databases from 18.3 to 18.5 on Windows, and how I encountered a

Hopefully you’ve followed my very simple and easy guide to downloading the 18c database software for Windows. But of course,

If you’re a Windows enterprise, or you want to run your 18c database on your Windows laptop/desktop for research and