(Fred Denis) The other day, I was upgrading a compatible.asm parameter to 12.1 on Exadata and I faced this error for the first time :

(mdinh) How do you typically create database, using dbca or sqlplus?

(Dbaharrison) So this week I’ve been doing some more stuff with cloud control 13c and came across a small issue when trying to use it with ie11.

(Martin Berger) Oracle DIRECTORY objects are very nice to handle access for external tables or other procedures.

(Andrew Reid) I tried to use dbua to upgrade a database from Oracle 11.2.0.4 to Oracle 12.1.0.2. Part way through, my PC lost connection with the UNIX server hosting the database.

(Hemant K Chitale) Here are some extracts from an 11.2.0.4 AWR Report I ran a simulated workload on this server for about 40minutes and generated this report. I understand that some DBAs may be misinterpreting SQL*Net message time.

(advait) This is a small article on using UDev on RHEL 7. I have a virtual box with RHEL 7 and I am configuring ASM diskgroups.

(Jeff Smith) I say designing, because I’m going to be talking about how to do this in SQL Developer Data Modeler.

(Tariq Farooq, Sridhar Avantsa and Pete Sharman) Oracle technologists explain the cloud computing implementation as it relates to database as a service (DBaaS). Cloud computing encompasses the IT infrastructure resources, which include networks, storage, servers, applications, and services.

(Ben) If you’ve used MySQL, you’re probably familiar with the AUTO_INCREMENT feature. But it’s not available in Oracle. Read this article to find out how you can auto increment a column in Oracle SQL.