(Marco Mischke) In my previous blog post I wrote about the MERGE statement and how it can efficiently be used. During the implementation of this solution a colleague stumbled upon some very high values numbers for the sequence he used to generate the IDs.

(Skant Gupta) In this post, we will perform patching on BM (Bare Metals) and VM ( Virtuals Machine) database systems by using DBCLI on the 2-Node RAC running on Oracle Database 19c.

(Jeff Smith) Short post today, and short video – but the content could save you HOURS of coding and working with your Oracle Database!

(Stefan) While doing a lot of Exadata Upgrades I get a problem on one of my DB nodes

(mdinh) Quick and dirty OPatch Update for All nodes:

(Martin Bach) Oracle 19c is has been getting a lot of traction recently, and I have been researching various aspects around its installation and use.

(Matthias Hoys) Last year Oracle released its “Oracle Cloud Free Tier” program. This means that you can get your own Oracle cloud database for free – and what’s more, it’s *always* free, so the offer will not expire after a year and you are charged nothing except if you start using one of the paid o

(Mike.Dietrich) When you see an ORA-1403 during TEXT / CONTEXT post upgrade phase, regardless of using AutoUpgrade, dbupgrade, catctl or DBUA, no worries.

(Nenad Noveljic) This blog post is inspired by John Beresniewicz’s presentation DB Time, Average Active Sessions, and ASH Math.

(Lucas Jellema) Resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can be managed through the console – the browser based UI. That works great but requires manual steps – no automation – that take time and easily go wrong (and become extremely boring over time).