(amitzil) In an Oracle Data Guard configuration, the primary and standby databases can have different configurations.

(Hemant K Chitale) When you want to / need to move a Partition to a different Tablespace (e.g. as part of a LifeCycle Management Policy), you may need downtime to relocate the Partition. However, version 12cRelease1 allows Online Relocation of a Partition.

(mdinh) Typically, what as been done is to schedule job for each database to collect database growth.

(Dirk Nachbar) I recently came over a real strange behaviour with ALTER TABLE ADD column with DEFAULT value on one of my customers.

(Sidhu) It started with an xls sheet (that was called dbm configurator).

(Connor McDonald) One of the new features in 18c is the ability to ignore any optimizer hints in a session or across the entire database.

(Martien van den Akker) A few blogs ago I wrote about issues we encountered with persistence of settings in an Enterprise Deployment with seperate Admin and Managed Server domains.

(Jeff Smith) Today’s question: Does ORDS support PUT/POST with Array or Cursor as part of the payload? I need to call a procedure with 1 IN parameter defined as Array or Cursor (for a list of IDs).

(Syed Jaffar Hussain) Everyone who is aware and utilizes Exadata Database Machine is certainly knew the performance it can deliver. I have involved in many Exadata migration projects, and witnessed how customers gained the database performance and satisfied post migration.

(Patch72) I have been working on a presentation on Polymorphic Table Functions. During this time I was looking for a real use case for Polymorphic Table Functions.