(Carlos Sierra) Working on the new eDB360 repository I came across this “ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype” while trying to CTAS on the following DBA views:

(Chris Muir) We have released a new YouTube video entitled Using SMS Services with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service as well as a hands-on tutorial. The video and tutorial take you through the steps to configure MCS with 3rd party SMS service provider Syniverse.

(Jeff Smith) I don’t do enough video.

(Jeffrey Kemp) The order in which your deployment scripts create views is important. This is a fact that I was reminded of when I had to fix a minor issue in the deployment of version #2 of my application recently.

(mdinh) Environment: Oracle RAC with DBFS running as oracle

(Frits Hoogland) This is a run through of a performance investigation into Oracle tablespace encryption. These are the versions this test was performed on:

(Martin Bach) In preparation for an upcoming talk about Oracle 12.2 I am planning on getting my feet wet with the Oracle 12.2 Sharding option. It seems to be a very interesting subject to get into, but like all new subjects, they can be intimidating at first due to their complexity. So why not use t

(David Fitzjarrell) A YouTube video is currently being promoted in the database community regarding joins, including the variety of joins available in most database engines (the engine referred to in the video is Oracle).

(Jan Kettenis) In a previous blog posting I discussed a solution to re-initiate a scope in BPMN that is supposed to time out after some time. In this posting I discuss how that solution inspires a couple of other use cases where a time out has to be re-initiated by calling an operation on the proces

(Jeff Smith) Can you? YES. Absolutely, even.