(Phil Wilkins) Oracle have announced Oracle Integration Cloud, the next evolution in their cloud integration capabilities. So how does it relate to the existing Cloud based integration products and what is the future of different products?

(Bobby Curtis) Oracle GoldenGate is reliant on the Oracle Redo Logs and Archive Logs when capturing transactions. Since I do a lot of testing on VMs (limited space) and in the cloud (limited space … don’t want to burn to much $), I often delete my archive logs.

(Anuradha Mudgal) Today’s article is about to add some deep knowledge in the Oracle’s database knowledge. We are going to have look at basic elements of Oracle database. This article is most useful for freshers and beneficial for experienced DBAs too.

(David Fitzjarrell) Database upgrades aren’t terribly difficult in general, unless the upgrade is for an RMAN catalog database that has two catalogs with different versions.

(Hemant K Chitale) It is easy to create a default GLOBAL Index that is defined as a Unique Index on a column (or composite of columns) containing unique values.

(Frits Hoogland) Warning! This is a post about Oracle database internals for internals lovers and researchers. For normal, functional administration, this post serves no function. The post shows a little tool I created which consists of a small database I compiled with Oracle database C function nam

(David Fitzjarrell) Waiting is, well, inconvenient at times because it interferes with getting work done yet there are times when there is nothing to do, really, except wait. Of course this usually happens during an important update to a critical application table, when the transaction fails on erro

(Martin Berger) I hit an issue where a full backup took much longer than normal.

(connormcdonald) When your car gets a flat tyre, it’s always handy to have a spare.

(Dermot O’Neill) SQLcl allows you to define “named” scripts or statements using the ALIAS command.