
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…

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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In the last post I talked about a form of syntactic sugar I’m not convinced we really needed. This post on the other hand is about one that I think I’ve needed since the first time I logged on to a SQL-based database. When you put together a test case it is often setup to…
Now that Oracle DB 23ai has been GA for a while I figure it is time to dig into it and talk about the features för DBA and developers that I find most interesting to talk about. Yes, you’ve read about some of them as info has seeped out during the beta-test and and pre-GA.…
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