Top 5: blog posts from October 2026

November 2, 2026 No Comments

October flew by, and dozens of excellent articles were published, but to save you from having to spend hours separating the wheat from the chaff, here is my monthly list of what I consider to be essential reading, focused on those that offer fresh insights or deal with common issues in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do, so here it is, without further delay!

How to Change DB_UNIQUE_NAME and Relocate All Oracle Database Files in ASM

Need to validate or transform text in Oracle? Fahd shows us how to do it effortlessly with regular expressions.

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A Practical Guide to Oracle Regex

Need to validate or transform text in Oracle? Fahd shows us how to do it effortlessly with regular expressions.

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How to Download Patches from My Oracle Support using WGET script

Want to download Oracle patches directly? Maicon shows us how to do it using WGET and a new authentication method.

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Looking at Proxy Users

What happens when a user connects to Oracle through a proxy? Sean explores its quirks and the surprising implications for security and auditing.