(Jeff Smith) In both v4.1.5 and v4.2, you can now select objects from your database tree, and drag them to another connection to have them copied.

(Lucas Jellema) One of those things SQL developers are frequently looking at is the generation of rows: having a query return records that do not really exist. For example to generate test data or to produce records for all days in a month. Tom Kyte usually selects from data dictionary views.

(Hemant K Chitale) The documentation on the Flashback Retention Target in 11.2 and 12.1 states that this parameter specifies an upper limit on how far the database may be flashed back.

(Randolf Geist) The next part of the video tutorial explaining the XPLAN_ASH Active Session History functionality continuing the actual walk-through of the script output.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) I took my old sample application implemented in 2010 – Dynamic Flying Dashboard UI Shell and upgraded it to recent ADF 12.2.1.1.

(Christian Antognini) From version 11.2 onward, the PARALLEL hint supports two syntaxes: object-level and statement-level. The object-level syntax, which is the only one available up to version 11.1, overrides the DOP associated to a tables.

(Brendan Tierney) This is the fourth blog post of a series on using Oracle Text, Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining. Make sure to check out the previous blog posts as each one builds upon each other.

(Neil Chandler) Johnathan Lewis (@JLOracle) recently published a short post about Stats Collection Time, talking about the table dba_optstat_operation (and dba_optstat_operation_tasks ), which reminded me about (what I regard as) an anomaly in the output in the NOTES columns in Oracle 12C.

(Hemant K Chitale) Undo is where Oracle logs how to reverse a transaction (one or more DMLs in a transaction)

(Ben) The DECOMPOSE function is a handy string manipulation function. Learn more about it and find out what it does in this article.