(Eric Elzinga) On designtime we use the oramds to develop our processflows in our bpel processes.

(Brendan Tierney) Oracle R Enterprise comes with a vast array of features that not really documented anywhere. One of these features that I’ve recently found useful is the ore.recode() function.

(Mohamed Azar) If you are plan to implement rac setup in virtul box for your lab practise, you need to setup a dns configuration necessary steps to use single client access name (SCAN) introduced in 11gR2 RAC.

(Marko Sutic) Few days ago I’ve received complaint that simple count on 2 million rows table is running forever.

(Yves Colin) The 12c version has introduced a new features called “OCI Client-Side Deployment Parameters” this feature gives you the possibility to override some OCI parameters without even changing your application code.

(connormcdonald) A cool new feature in 12c is the ability to make a column invisible. The concept has existed since 8i to handle things like “set unused” and function based indexes, but now it is available to developers directly.

(Biju) V$BACKUP_NONLOGGED is new view in 12c, displays information about nonlogged block ranges in data file backups recorded in the control file. A related view is V$NONLOGGED_BLOCK. It displays ranges of nonlogged datafile blocks recorded in the control file.

(Kellyn Pot’Vin) Let’s say you’re on call and you’re woke from a deep, delightful sleep from the pager, stating the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control isn’t available.

(Richard Bingham) In this article we’ll look at using Global Functions to make your code more modular, and how you can pass in your current object instance.

(connormcdonald) Had an interesting AskTom question today about dynamically keeping partition sizes in check.