(Jeff Smith) I just came from a DBA-dominated conference – Hotsos Symposium in Dallas, if you must know – and I came away with the impression that many a DBA out there is missing out on some key features and productivity-hacks in our dear ole IDE.

(Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman) I’ve been working on a test environment consisting of multiple containers in a really cool little setup.

(mdinh) Just some notes on 12c Oracle Home Cloning.

(Natik Ameen) Question: What is the cause of the error “ORA-02010 missing host connect string”?

(Bobby Curtis) Oracle Enterprise Manager is a complex piece of software that many organizations are running now. Some organizations set out with a formalized naming standard; some do not.

(Marco Gralike) So I am not working in the Public Cloud for a week and last night I got an email message mentioning, “Experiencing Slow Performance with Oracle Cloud” which were related to my created database instances.

(Vishal Pathak) My last article talked about a maintenance and hassle free mechanism to implement security. The article moved the security architecture to roles created in EM.

(ilmarkerm) Since 11.1 RMAN has had a silent new feature – RMAN Backup Undo Optimization. This feature will exclude undo from committed transactions (after undo_retention time has also passed) from backups, possibly making the undo tablespace backup much smaller.

(Cary Millsap) Within Accenture Enkitec Group, we have recently been discussing the Oracle db_block_checksum parameter and how difficult it is to get clients to set it to a safer setting.

(mdinh) Do you know what PSU there are?