(David Fitzjarrell) A recent question in an Oracle forum regarding Automatic UNDO Management shows that the topic is still misunderstood by some. The basic idea behind Automatic UNDO Management is that the database essentially does the work for the DBA, freeing him or her from a tedious task of moni

(John Hallas) I think most large sites who have multiple support teams are aware of how the phrase “Segregation of Duties” is impacting the DBA world. The basic principle, that one user should not be able to, for instance, add a user, grant it privileges, let the user run scripts and then drop the u

(Andrejus Baranovskis) Alta UI in ADF 12c with combination of Tablet First template provides support for responsive UI. Often you would like to implement extra functionality for responsive layout, not available out of the box. I’m going to describe in this post, with very practical example, how this

(David Fitzjarrell) A recent question in an Oracle forum regarding Automatic UNDO Management shows that the topic is still misunderstood by some. The basic idea behind Automatic UNDO Management is that the database essentially does the work for the DBA, freeing him or her from a tedious task of moni

(Iggy Fernandez) What would you do if you were lost in a labyrinth of underground caves? In the dark. With no food. Mark Twain tells the story of how Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher got separated from their picnic group and got lost in a labyrinth of underground caves.

(nbayliss) In Part 1 of this series of tips on SQL Plan Management (SPM) and Oracle Database In-Memory I covered an example where a full table scan query made use of the In-Memory column store immediately without changing the SQL execution plan.

(advait) This Question came to my mind when I was discussing “direct path reads” with DBA candidates. I was surprised that many DBAs were not aware of object level checkpoint that happens while doing direct path read.

(Iggy Fernandez) What would you do if you were lost in a labyrinth of underground caves? In the dark. With no food. Mark Twain tells the story of how Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher got separated from their picnic group and got lost in a labyrinth of underground caves.

(nbayliss) In Part 1 of this series of tips on SQL Plan Management (SPM) and Oracle Database In-Memory I covered an example where a full table scan query made use of the In-Memory column store immediately without changing the SQL execution plan.

(advait) This Question came to my mind when I was discussing “direct path reads” with DBA candidates. I was surprised that many DBAs were not aware of object level checkpoint that happens while doing direct path read.