(Jeff Smith) Twitter wasn’t playing nice, so I’ll just blog this.

(Martin Bach) For quite some time we have been treated nicely by ASM when it comes to transient disk failures. Since 11.1 (if memory serves me right), transient failures won’t cause an ASM disk to be dropped immediately. This is good, because it can potentially save a lot of time! When a disk is dro

(Jeff Smith) I love SQLcl – I use it more and more every day.

(mdinh) For a long time, I was using *.local_listener='(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=)(PORT=1551))’ without specifying the host name since it makes the configuration more dynamic.

(Ben) The Oracle TO_SINGLE_BYTE function is useful for databases with different character sets. Learn how to use it and see some examples in this article.

(Lucas Jellema) Events are quite relevant in modern computer architecture. At various levels of the stack. Events can represent various things – from IoT based measurements and logistical updates to web site activities and business transactions to operational IT metrics and situations.

(Patch72) Dear Patrick, Recently I heard someone talk about overloading in Java. What is it, is it possible in PL/SQL and if so, how would I use it?

(Jeff Smith) For some reason I procrastinated setting up my video software on my new work machine. Big mistake.

(Hemant K Chitale) In 11gR2, ALTER DATABASE FLASHBACK ON and OFF can be executed when the database is OPEN. Setting FLASHBACK OFF results in deletion of all Flashback Files.

(Lucas Jellema) The Oracle PaaS cloud is turning into the next generation application server platform. More specifically: Oracle has announced the roadmap for the Application Container Cloud Service (not to be confused with the plain Container Cloud Service which runs pre built Docker containers wit