Top 5: blog posts of July 2025

Top5 2025-07

Staying informed is crucial, and thankfully, good articles are still coming out. However, to spare you the time and effort of reading them all, I will compile a monthly inventory of the articles that I consider to be indispensable.

It has been difficult to choose from so much excellent content, but I focused on those that offer fresh insights or deal with common issues in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way.

I hope you love reading it as much as I do, so here it is without more delay!

Recent Posts

Out of place patching Oracle RAC
Learn how to patch Oracle RAC database in out-of-place mode and use Gold Image for maximum simplicity and minimum effort.
Hide column contents
Learn how to implement the masking of column contents dynamically and without having to modify your applications.
Register ACFS file system fails
Learn how to register an ACFS filesystem after migrating the Disk Group containing it to a new Oracle Cluster.
Setting incremental statistics for partitioned tables
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!
if there is an unusable index when analyze is executed, expect ORA-1502
How an error caused by running analyze on a table with unusable indexes is solved with regular expressions and dbms_stats.
We need to add new disks to Disk Group
Are you about to add, drop or replace disks in ASM? You may not be doing it in the most efficient way. Learn how.

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