You don’t have to wait for Oracle 23ai to use these new cool features

Starting with Oracle 19.28, the use of IF [NOT] EXISTS and the function DBMS_SQLDIAG.REPORT_SQL is now available. Learn all about them.

Troubleshoot: ORA-24247 when trying to send an email

Have you just upgraded or implemented new functionality and encountered the ORA-24247 error? Learn how to resolve it in one simple step.

Huge materialized view log? Fix it in 5 steps

If you find huge materialized view logs, follow these steps to diagnose the problem and purge their contents.

Learn to patch the way God intended (S2E3)

Learn to patch Grid Infrastructure for Single Instance, with out-of-place mode and using a gold image.

Learn to patch the way God intended (S2E2)

Learn how to patch Grid Infrastructure for Single Instance, aka Oracle Restart, using out-of-place patching.

Learn to patch the way God intended (S2E1)

Learn how to patch Oracle RAC database in out-of-place mode and use Gold Image for maximum simplicity and minimum effort.

Troubleshoot: data masking without changing the applications

Learn how to implement the masking of column contents dynamically and without having to modify your applications.

Troubleshoot: PRCA-1051 when trying to register a migrated ACFS filesystem

Learn how to register an ACFS filesystem after migrating the Disk Group containing it to a new Oracle Cluster.

Incremental statistics, are you doing it right?

If you implemented incremental statistics in releases before Oracle 12.2, you may not be taking full advantage of them. Learn how to do it!

Troubleshoot: a non-regular solution for “ORA-01502 index is in unusable state”

How an error caused by running analyze on a table with unusable indexes is solved with regular expressions and dbms_stats.