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    Advanced Queuing

    I have just uploaded an article I wrote almost five years ago to the day. It was my first attempt and I wrote about Oracle AQ which is Oracle version of a messaging product. AQ is included with the database and has a lot of nice features including full support for XML payloads. Another important…


  • ROWID at Oracle’s Service

    I have just posted a lengthy article about how Oracle uses rowid. It starts with talking about blocks , and how they work. Then I discuss how rowid are used and represented in symbolic dumps. Normal uses such as index linking to a data segment as well as migrated and chained rows are discussed. The document finishes…


  • Speaking at Orcan Conference May 11-13

    Just a quick note that I have accepted to speak at the conference the Swedish Oracle User Group Orcan will hold May 11-13. The subject will be on rowid, ITL, and row migration where I hope to show it both from the block level view and a little showing it from the OWI view. THe…