(Alex Gorbachev) With this post, I’m starting a series about Oracle Block Change Tracking internals. The feature was introduced in Oracle 10 Release 1. I have already published my past presentations and the white paper about that, so what pushed me to get back to this topic again?

(Grant Ronald) One of the features I’ve been pushing for in JDeveloper (that we got way back in Forms 5) was the ability to have declarative calculated fields. JDeveloper 11 (the technology preview is available on OTN) has this feature and it works pretty well (although just found one bug)…

Companies can extend the business process efficiency gains achieved with Oracle by automating document delivery. See production fax as a powerful tool for automating information distribution while driving efficiency, compliance and cost reduction. (R)

(Pawe³ Barut) It seems to be very easy task that can be accomplished using rebuild option: ALTER INDEX MY_INDEX REBUILD TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;

(Amit Jain) Typically, as part of the product installation, applications/products are required to create some database tables. It’s a good practice to isolate product installation tables from the application/solution specific tables.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle could issue a million new security features when it debuts Oracle Database 11g later this year, but it wouldn’t change the fact that Oracle’s patching problems still need to be addressed, according to Oracle Security Handbook author Aaron Newman. (R)

(Lucas Jellema) One of the powerful features for creating rich pages, including dashboards, is the ability to refresh and synchronize data components on a page by clicking an element in a chart. With the description of the stacked bar chart in Getting those Rich Charts going – Introducing the ADF Fa

(Jonathan Lewis) I received an email today containing the following question: For packaged applications, like the Oracle EBS, some indexes tend to develop a high Clustering Factor over time, like the one shown below:

(Shervin Sheidaei) I just want to raise a warning flag for DBAs using RMAN and flash recovery area in Oracle 10g.

(Sean Hull) There are nearly an infinite number and combination of questions one can pose to a DBA candidate in an interview. I prefer to lean towards the conceptional, rather than the rote, as questions of this kind emphasize your foundation, and thorough understanding. Besides, I’ve never been one