Disclaimer 1:Unless you are a paying client, I am not who you take licensing advice from. Talk to your Software License Manager (SLM) if you want to know how many licenses you need or your Oracle sales rep if you want to know how many licenses you could afford with the budget you have. 🙂…

If you are like me, then tnsping is an old friend you turn to every time there is an issue with accessing databases. It does not validate if the database can be found but if the listener responds for the service-name you want to reach. If you are not on the same machine, making sure…

SQLcl is turning into a absolute beast or universal swiss knife if you will. I’m having so much funk with the utility of this tool. Today I want to talk about how to get one key feature of Liquibase to work with SQLcl and its implementation of Liquibase. It does a lot of it amazingly…

I was recently asked to investigate why a job that was to update a few thousand rows took an hour where it had been proven to do the work in just seconds in other environments. Was this new environment set up with much more data? No, actually much less as the tests before had been…

I have hidden my previous post on the explicit request by Oracle Security Team. If you did read it or have it in your RSS, please do not forward or talk about it online until further notice. I’m not sure it is the right thing to do, but I have promised Oracle to not publish…