(Brendan Tierney) When preparing data for data science, data mining or machine learning projects you will create a data set that describes the various characteristics of the subject or case record. Each attribute will contain some descriptive information about the subject and is related to the targe

(Maarten Smeets) Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that reports and analyzes them.

(Debra Lilley) The big message from OOW was the Always Free Autonomous Database. Not normally of interest to me but I thought, I love the APEX community, (they were my first call out on community appreciation day in 2016).

(dbasolved) In an earlier post on ServiceManager, I took a look at how you could start/stop the ServiceManager manually.

(Connor McDonald) I did a set of articles for Oracle Magazine on a more holistic view of SQL tuning. What do I mean by “holistic”?

(Jeff Smith) I’ve heard quite a bit about this killer, new feature in Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 19.2..so I wanted to give it a go, and share it with you folks.

(Frits Hoogland) This blogpost is about analysing Oracle heap dumps. It is an extension to earlier work, Tanel Poder’s heap dump analyzer. So hat tip to Tanel, he’s done the hard work, I merely increased the presentation options.

(Andrej Baranovskij) This is a quick tip post related to Oracle JET.

(savvinov) In my previous posts (e.g. here and here) I showed how to use ps output (e.g. from ExaWatcher) visualization to spot performance problems in Linux. Here I’d like to show that this approach can be taken a little bit further, namely, to find the source of increase in memory usage.

(Viktor Kozlovszky) We are in an era where lots of things can be achieved with just a few clicks and quick typing on the web. This simple and fast information exchange has made this method become a standard form of communication.