(Natik Ameen) Tokens are used to capture and store the environment variable values in the header of the GoldenGate trail record file. The trail file header contains a lot of information about the physical environment that produced the trail file and trail file contents.

(Jeff Smith) If you have the Tuning Pack licensed, a couple of things become available for you in SQL Developer:

(Marco Gralike) While scrolling to the DBaaS interface pages, I realized that I was spending a lot of time getting to know and learn the current interface look-and-feel.

(John Brady) Many people consider a Full Table Scan (FTS) in a query execution plan to be a bad thing – reading every record from a table to find only those records the query needs.

(connormcdonald) I observed this idiosyncracy recently when loading some lob from external files using PL/SQL:

(Andrejus Baranovskis) ADF BC REST service out of the box supports LOV list data. You can define LOV for ADF BC View Object attribute and use it straight away in REST service.

(Tobias Arnhold) Maybe this an old hat but a lot of people don’t know how to use and analyze APEX_COLLECTION properly. For myself it is a good reminder and saves me about 2 minutes instead of googling around.

(Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman) As I’m playing with the AWR Warehouse in EM13c, I noticed a few changes that may send up a red flag and wanted to assist in removing those.

(Hemant K Chitale) Some testing I’d done with Flashback Data Archive (henceforth called FBDA in this and subsequent posts, if any) in 11.2.0.4 left me with uncertainty about the automatic purging of data beyond the Retention Period.

(Kris Rice) Longops is a great way to monitor things that take some time to do work.