(Maarten Smeets) Efficient usage of version control has specific requirements to allow identification of versions and synchronous development on different branches. Design time you will want to have your Service Bus projects in a single application in order to allow usage of shared objects.

(Iggy Fernandez) We can’t help attaching meaning to optimizer statistics. After all, they represent our data, don’t they? So we refresh them as frequently as possible and use the largest sample sizes that we can use.

(Fahd Mirza) Vertica is a an exciting database with some real nifty features. Projections is a ground breaking unique feature of Vertica which dramatically increases performance benefits in terms of querying and space benefits in terms of compression.

(Maarten Smeets) Efficient usage of version control has specific requirements to allow identification of versions and synchronous development on different branches. Design time you will want to have your Service Bus projects in a single application in order to allow usage of shared objects.

(Bobby Curtis) I’ve been doing some Enterprise Manager installs a bit more lately. At the same time, I’ve been working on Data Integration items such as GoldenGate and ODI. What these products have in common are that they require an Oracle Database for a repository.

(Bobby Curtis) I’ve been doing some Enterprise Manager installs a bit more lately. At the same time, I’ve been working on Data Integration items such as GoldenGate and ODI. What these products have in common are that they require an Oracle Database for a repository.

(Anand) This post is for some of you who are planning to upgrade to 12c.I worked on upgrading single instance database from 11.2.0.3.13 to 12.1.2.0.3, so thought to share my experience.

(Anand) This post is for some of you who are planning to upgrade to 12c.I worked on upgrading single instance database from 11.2.0.3.13 to 12.1.2.0.3, so thought to share my experience.

(mdinh) Just a reference to source and my version of the script.

(Michael McLaughlin) Using an Oracle object type’s instance in a query is a powerful capability. Unfortunately, Oracle’s SQL syntax doesn’t make it immediately obvious how to do it. Most get far enough to put it in a runtime view (a subquery in the FROM clause), but then they get errors like this: