Yes, this post is a little out of order as it clearly didn’t take place after the Thursday afternoon sessions. I missed it during the conference so I had to catch up on it later on the on demand site. I thought it was interesting enough to write up a few notes. It was held…
I’ll give myself a quota for no more than one rant a month. However, one of my pet peeves is how Oracle licenses the database. I’l probably return to why I dislike the general model in a future rant, but this on e will be specific to partitioning. To use partitioning, you have to pay…
Are you using 9i/10G and still implement optimistic locking with your own column rather than through Oracle’s pseudo column? So am I, but I couldn’t really explain why. My main (defensive) argument would be that the system was built long before 9i. Still, it would make sense for us to change it. Let’s look at…
I’m going to discuss how to get SQL access to your alert log in this entry. I will then build on that to make it even more useful in future posts. Browsing the alert log can be convenient if you’re already on the server. However, it is often not possible or at least not overly…
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