Blog Post: Snap Clone Via Self Service Portal – Part 2
A friend wrote: “One question regarding PDBaaS. Is it possible with OEM 13c (and same question for 12c) to provision through Self Service Portal a PDB with disk space reduction using the snapshot copy...
View ArticleBlog Post: Ensuring Data Protection Using Oracle Flashback Features - Part 3
Introduction In my previous article we have reviewed the first Oracle Flashback feature which was introduced in Oracle 9i, named "Flashback Query" and we saw how this feature works "behind the scenes"...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle 12c: DDL Logging.. will it serve the purpose?
Oracle had introduced a cool feature in version 11g, where we were able to log or track DDL statements executed in the database by means of a parameter called ENABLE_DDL_LOGGING without setting up...
View ArticleWiki Page: Creating a PL/SQL Authentication Function
Many developers prefer to write APEX applications today, but there are developers who build standalone web applications. This article describes how you can create an Access Control List (ACL), and a...
View ArticleWiki Page: Loading MySQL Table Data into Oracle Database
Written by Deepak Vohra If data is to be loaded from MySQL database to Oracle Database, which are the two most commonly used relational databases, some of the options available are: Use Sqoop Use SQL...
View ArticleWiki Page: Agile Development / DevOps
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View ArticleWiki Page: Oracle - Wiki
If you were looking for Knowledge Xpert or OraDBpedia, you're in the right place! We've moved to make your community experience even better by leveraging the scale of Toad World's 3 million users. The...
View ArticleWiki Page: In-Memory Column Store in Oracle 12c
Written by: Juan Carlos Olamendy Turruellas Introduction In this article, I want to talk about a nice feature that comes with Oracle database 12c Release 1 . This feature enables storing in memory...
View ArticleWiki Page: Enterprise Manager General Monitoring - Part II
Written by Porus Homi Havewala We are looking at the General Monitoring capabilities of Enterprise Manager, as experienced by Enterprise Manager Administrators or Cloud Administrators. Part I was here...
View ArticleWiki Page: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c:- Oracle Exadata...
Written by Syed Jaffar Hussain Summary Managing, monitoring and maintaining Oracle Exadata Database Machine full stack is not an easy task, it demands a high level of technical skills and comprehensive...
View ArticleBlog Post: Generate Multiple AWR Reports Quickly
Occasionally there is a need to generate multiple AWR reports for database analysis. In my case, a storage vendor will use a tool to extract data from all time periods from the AWR reports to find IO...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle REST Data Services 3.0.5 is available
Friends, Oracle REST Data Services 3.0.5 is available for download. The link is http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-services/downloads/index.html A recap of what's new in Oracle...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why you need SQL more than PL/SQL
I am often asked variations of the question "which programming language should I learn?" I often refer to lists like the TIOBE index which ranks programming language by usage. However, their definition...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why You Should ALWAYS Use Packages
Received this request via email today: Hi Steven I our shop we have an ongoing debate regarding when to use packages and when to create a collection of procedures/functions. We are not aligned at all,...
View ArticleForum Post: Export data to excel 2007 (xlsx)
Hi Since 2 days when I am exporting the result of a query to excel 2007, I am receiving this error message "toad error tag stack not empty worksheet sheetdata row c" There is about 120 000 rows....
View ArticleBlog Post: Expresiones regulares: literales y metacaracteres.
Seguimos con la serie de artículos acerca del uso de expresiones regulares en Oracle. Haciendo un breve repaso, en una expresión regular combinamos literales y metacaracteres. Los literales se toman...
View ArticleBlog Post: What’s new in Oracle Compute Cloud Service
What’s new for the Oracle Compute Cloud Service? First, both metered and non-metered options of Oracle Compute Cloud Service are now generally available. Second, you no longer need to subscribe for 50...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle 12c: TRUNCATE can be cascaded down to the lowest level of...
Do you recall the following error? ---// ---// ORA-02266 when truncating table //--- ---// SQL> truncate table parent; truncate table parent * ERROR at line 1: ORA-02266: unique/primary keys in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Ensuring Data Protection Using Oracle Flashback Features - Part 4
Introduction In my previous article we have reviewed Oracle 10g Flashback features. We started with the Flashback Query enhancements (Flashback Version Query, Flashback Transaction Query, Flashback...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle SQL and XML
Here is some useful information from the IAOUG Roundtable. I got this brilliant idea last fall when several wanted to share ideas/issues/etc after I gave my OOW update ppt. I’ve had problems getting...
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