(Fahd Mirza Chughtai) —– In Oracle 12.1.0.2, created the wallet by using below commands:

(Phil Wilkins) We have had a number of interesting conversations of late about the transition from ICS to OIC and to spice the discussion whether it should be OIC or Autonomous OIC.

(stewashton) On AskTOM, Kim Berg Hansen recently used JSON_OBJECT to parse CLOB data in “name=value” format. I added a variant based on my work with CSV data.

(Connor McDonald) Java and Oracle expert Lukas Eder tweeted yesterday about a potential optimization that could be done when reviewing database SQL code.

(amitzil) This week I worked on a messy patch. I have a RAC environment with 12.1.0.2 and an old PSU and all kind of one-off patches and I wanted to install the latest PSU (180417). It sounds simple, but it’s not so simple.

(Hemant K Chitale) I am beginning a new series of Blog Posts on Partitioning in Oracle. I plan to cover 11g and 12c. I might add posts on changes in 18c (which is really 12.2.0.2 currently)

(Anuradha Mudgal) This post is for those who are new in “Oracle RDBMS”, Being a part of Oracle technology in Database. “RMAN” plays an important part in “Backup&Recovery”.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) This post is based on Oracle Code 2018 Shenzhen, Warsaw and Berlin talks. View presentation on SlideShare:

(Gerald) Oracle recently launched a new GitHub repository for providing people with Oracle software inside Vagrant boxes. If you have ever setup an Oracle database inside a VirtualBox VM, whether it is as your sandbox environment, to explore Oracle database, or to use it as a full-on development env

(David Fitzjarrell) Oracle, in a desire to let the administrator affect performance, has provided various settings in the spfile to enable or disable features that could possibly make things go faster. Long on the list of bloggers has been cursor_sharing, the parameter used to tell Oracle how to tre