Wonder Time For DBAs – What Are The Results?
February 7, 2019Last year, I introduced you to the idea of Wonder Time For DBAs. I have not come up with the… Continue Reading
5 Steps To Automate Listen.log Mining
January 31, 2019If you read last week’s article, then you most likely understand the importance and the benefit of reviewing the listener.log… Continue Reading
5 Reasons You Should Review The listener.log File
January 22, 2019Many years ago, I found an article written by Arup Nanda, on mining the listener log file. If you have… Continue Reading
How To Setup Externally Authenticated Users in A Multitenant Database
January 9, 2019It is not very often that a DBA creates externally authenticated users. Creating such users in a multitenant database, needs… Continue Reading
New Year, New Skills To Learn
January 4, 2019A new year has begun, and so did a new chapter of your career. What are you going to write… Continue Reading
Cheat Sheet For Common And Local Users, Roles, Profiles
December 17, 2018When you transition from a single instance, non-CDB database to a multitenant database architecture, working with users, roles and profiles… Continue Reading
4 Things You Need To Know About Database Restricted Mode
November 15, 2018For certain database operations, you need to place your database in restricted mode.There are two ways to proceed to accomplish… Continue Reading
How To Display Dates Relative To Current Day
November 7, 2018It doesn’t happen very often that DBAs need to write reports based on dates, but when they do, they might… Continue Reading
5 Things To Know About Chained And Migrated Rows
October 25, 2018We hear it all the time that chained or migrated rows are not good. But if someone would challenge you… Continue Reading
Who Is Holding The Lock On The Table?
October 10, 2018Did you ever get an email or a phone call from a developer telling you they are getting an error… Continue Reading