Lately I wrote a post about 12.2 new features. In the post I didn’t list sharding (probably one of the biggest features in this version), as I wanted to dedicate
Lately I wrote a post about 12.2 new features. In the post I didn’t list sharding (probably one of the biggest features in this version), as I wanted to dedicate
As you know, Oracle Open World is over (for me at least), and one of the major topics there was Oracle 12cR2 (or 12.2). It looks like a really cool
I didn’t have a lot of time to blog during OOW16, so here is the summary of the last 4 days here.
In this post I’ll continue talking about writing bash scripts for database stuff. I’ll devote this entire part to sqlplus, as there is a lot to say here.
Many Oracle databases are running on Linux/UNIX systems, and many DBAs need to write all kind of scripts. Over the years I’ve written probably tens of thousands of script lines
Being in North America (the English speaking side), made me understand that many people are not aware (and don’t actually care) about character sets too much. Everything supports English, and
I’ve been an Oracle ACE for about 7 years now, and have never written about it. Other Oracle ACEs have written about this over the years (like this post by
I tweeted and mentioned reasons why people should attend Oracle Open World, but apparently I haven’t written an actual post about it, so I decided to do that now. This
It’s been a year (and a week) since I moved from the small Israel to the huge Canada. I knew it wouldn’t be easy both personally and professionally, but until
As DBAs we are usually located in the middle between the IT (sysadmins, storage, network) and the development. Some of my best friends are sysadmins and developers (well, friends anyway),