Top 5: blog posts of September 2025
October 2, 2025
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September 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!
Recent Posts

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

Are you about to add, drop or replace disks in ASM? You may not be doing it in the most efficient way. Learn how.

AutoUpgrade fails if the server names are in uppercase, and you are working with an RAC One Node database.

What to do when Oracle reports an incorrect value for the space used in Fast Recovery Area.

Learn how to resolve and avoid the ORA-01017 error when you have Oracle Data Guard with wallet implemented.

Learn how to identify the row involved in the occurrence of the wait even "enq: TX - row lock contention"