(stewashton) I just learned about these critters thanks to an ODC forum question: how to calculate the difference between two dates in calendar years and months, days, hours, minutes and seconds.

(Robert Crames) Oracle’s recommendation for an Enterprise Manager backup can be found in “Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Advanced Installation and Configuration Guide”, chapter “Backing Up and Recovering Enterprise Manager”.

(David Fitzjarrell) Partitions can make DBA life easier; they allow faster access to data through partition pruning and they allow for easier archiving and removal of old data.

(Dirk Nachbar) Since yesterday Oracle published the Visual Studio Code Extension “Oracle Developer Tools for VS Code”

(Anuradha Mudgal) Let’s have look on the steps used to solve the error Error(ORA-00031: session marked for the kill)

(Mike.Dietrich) In the previous blog posts you could read about how to create the configuration file, adjust it and tweak the init parameters for the AutoUpgrade tool.

(Gerald) In one of my past posts I showed how one can install Oracle Linux on a Raspberry Pi from a Mac via the command line.

(Uwe Hesse) Many of our customers are using Oracle together with SQL Developer, so this question comes up regularly: Can we use SQL Developer also for Exasol?

(Brendan Tierney) When issuing queries to the database one of the challenges every developer faces is how to get the results quickly. If your queries are only returning a small number of records, eg. < 5, then you don’t really have to worry about execution time. [membership level="0"] Register to Read [/membership]

(Morten Braten) When you create an application in Oracle Application Express (APEX) using the Universal Theme, the application comes with a few default “Theme Styles” which are essentially various stylesheets that you can switch between to go from the default blue (called “Vita”) to, for example, th