Over the years I’ve heard and learned quite a lot about how Oracle does stuff. Some of it was logical, some just details to remember (I have a really lousy
Over the years I’ve heard and learned quite a lot about how Oracle does stuff. Some of it was logical, some just details to remember (I have a really lousy
Lately I ran into a case of losing of a voting disk, so this lead me to create a GI environment on my laptop (using virtual box) and play with
Every day you can learn something new, even after 20 years in the field. For some reason, I was always under the impression that within a single schema, objects must
A little bit more than a month ago I spoke at OSWOUG event (and wrote this post about it). In the event, Jared Still talked about free tools for Oracle
If you don’t know that by now, OTN (Oracle Technology Netowrk) has changed its name to ODC (Oracle Developer Community), so OTN Appreciation Day becomes ODC Appreciation Day. This initiative
During OOW17 a customer ran into a wrong result issue in 11.2.0.4, which is very bad. I diagnosed this and found out that it happens because of bloom filter, so
I wrote this post quite a while ago and it stayed as draft since. A few days ago, during Oracle Open World 2017, I had a long chat with Jim
When Oracle are adding a new feature to the database, they usually add a parameter to control it. Sometimes, after adding feature and the parameter, they realize that the parameter
I’m on my way back home after spending the day in Portland for the OSWOUG (Oregon and South Washington Oracle User Group) event. As usual (mostly) I’m writing about conferences
I wrote in the past about my frustration with Oracle support. I also hear from customers and colleagues about their frustration with Oracle support, from different reasons. People like to