(Martien van den Akker) At my current customer we work with VDI’s: Virtual Desktop Images, that at several times a day very, very slow. Even so slow that it more or less stalls for a minute or two.

(Richard Foote) One of the potentially cool new features introduced in Oracle Database 18c is the Memoptimized RowStore, designed to improve the performance and scalability of key-value based queries.

(Skant Gupta) In this post we can see that how many background processes will come after starting the Oracle 18c Database on virtual box. Also we can create listener in Read Only Home to connect the database remotely with the help of tns entry.

(Lucas Jellema) This article is not some sophisticated treatise on Oracle JET fundamentals.It is merely a collection of challenges I had to deal with and found solutions for – that work, even if they are perhaps not the best approach around. This article is first of all a personal notebook. If you c

(Connor McDonald) It all seems simple enough. You pick a name for an object…and that is the only object that have than name right ? For example:

(David Fitzjarrell) Occasionally it may be necessary to have a table with 255 or more columns (data marts and data warehouses come immediately to mind). Oracle allows up to 1023 columns in a table but once the column list expands beyond 255 some interesting behavior appears. Let’s look at a situatio

(amitzil) Over the years I ran into all kind of weird and wonderful backup and restore scenarios. This case has challenged me for a while now and I finally had the chance to check it properly and figure out what’s going on. So here is the story.

(Phil Wilkins) Oracle’s API Platform (API-P) product avoids the use of external configuration management. If you want to better understand why, then checkout our forthcoming book as it goes into detail about why this is the case (it can be pre-release version of the book can be obtained here).

(Frits Hoogland) This the the fifth blog in a series of blogposts about Oracle database redo. The previous blog looked into the ‘null write’ (kcrfw_do_null_write actually) function inside kcrfw_redo_write_driver, which does housekeeping like updating SCNs and posting processes if needed, this blog l

(Scott Spendolini) A customer recently asked how APEX could track who clicked “download” from an Interactive Grid. After some quick searching of the logs, I realized that APEX simply does not record this type of activity, aside from a simple page view type of “AJAX” entry.