(Lucas Jellema) In a recent article I described how to provision an instance of Oracle Cloud Autonomous Data Warehouse in the recently launched Always Free Tier of OCI. This article shows how to connect from SQL Developer (desktop tool) to this instance.

(mdinh) Directory for autoupgrade/log: $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_UNQNAME/autoupgrade/log, where $ORACLE_UNQNAME=db_unique_name

(Scott Wesley) Are you involved with Oracle? Perhaps your a DBA, or a PL/SQL data master, possibly know a bit about Oracle Forms, and you want to learn what all the fuss is about regarding Oracle Application Express (APEX)?

(Frits Hoogland) There are a couple of underscore parameters changed from spare to named ones. It’s interesting to see that in sysstat, ‘spare statistic 2’ changed to ‘cell XT granule IO bytes saved by HDFS tbs extent map scan’.

(Mike.Dietrich) Our intention with the AutoUpgrade as the single tool to upgrade your databases was initially: You have one big config file for your databases.

(Lucas Jellema) Last month, Oracle announced it’s Cloud Free Tier on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This free tier offers several services (compute, storage, network, monitoring & notifications, serverless functions and Autonomous Database. Two autonomous database instance can be provisioned and

(Flavio Casetta) If you ever wondered if it is possible to rename a job, be advised that you can execute:

(Uwe Hesse) It’s amazingly easy to run an Exasol Cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

(Frits Hoogland) There are a couple of undocumented spare parameters changed to named undocumented parameters, this is quite normal to see.

(Connor McDonald) One of the pieces of advice that I often see on the ‘net is that undo space is somehow this incredibly precious thing, and as a consequence, one should always keep the amount of uncommitted changes in the database to a small size.