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23ai 4000+ columns
You may be of the belief that “nobody needs more than the 1000 columns we could create in a table in 19c”. You are free the believe that, but let me tell you a little story. There once was a project. At the height of the Telecom billing boom. Thy had implementations in multiple continents…
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23ai Lock-free reservations
An old truth in Oracle and just about all relational databases has been that an update on one row by one session will block an update by another session on the same row. Until the first session commits or rolls back. That is until 23ai. Or at least in some very specific scenarios. Let’s consider…
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Troubleshooting conversion errors
My friend and Oracle maestro Daniel Ekberg wrote a post about ways to manage errors when converting data. Go read his post if you want to see how the errors you get can be better managed. I think he may be the person that first pointed out the feature to me that I want to…