(Ben) Have you ever seen the Oracle STDDEV function? In this article, I’ll explain what the STDDEV function does and show you some examples.

(Hemant K Chitale) The 12c AWR Report section on Segment Statistics now reports both Obj# (OBJECT_ID) and DataObj# (DATA_OBJECT_ID). This is useful information when you have (table) objects undergoing TRUNCATEs during the workload.

(Jeff Smith) As much as I like the Export Comments, or hints…

(Sunil S. Ranka) Recently we have been getting lots of traction on BICS , existing OBIEE customers been asking for BICS . In nutshell :

(Maarten Smeets) I created a simple HelloWorld SOAP service running on Node.js. Why did I do that? I wanted to try if Node.js was a viable solution to use as middleware layer in an application landscape.

(Ben) The Oracle BFILENAME function is a useful file manipulation function. Learn what it is and how to use it in this article.

(Andrew Reid) This post shows how to do a hot backup followed by an incomplete recovery. I ran it on an Oracle 11.2.0.4 test database. First I checked that the database was in ARCHIVELOG mode:

(Dbaharrison) Today I’ve been looking at why some SQL is slower in one database than another. There can of course be myriad of reasons for this. Everything from you didn’t gather stats to you did gather stats and everything conceivable in between.

(advait) Table recovery was possible in earlier release as well. Until previous release, if we wanted to recover a table, we had following options

(Andrejus Baranovskis) Let’s take a look how we can consume REST service exposed from Mobile Cloud Service (MCS). I will show how you could display data coming from MCS endpoint in Oracle JET. I will be using simple scenario in this post, based on HTTP Basic authentication method offered by MCS.