April 28, 2009 - Days to previous day of the week in SQL- Oracle News by Don Burleson

April 27, 2009 - Oracle Text: Map Linux to Windows path- Oracle News by Don Burleson

April 3, 2009 - Find large files in a UNIX/Linux directory - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 27, 2009 - How to monitor a data pump import - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 26, 2009 - Custom RMAN catalog reports - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 25, 2009 - Script to clean up Oracle trace & dump files - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 24, 2009 - How to buy Rampant Oracle books in India - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 23, 2009 - Find recent files in a directory - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 20, 2009 - UNIX/Linux script to remove old archived redo log files - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 19, 2009 - Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) performance benchmark test - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 18, 2009 - Accessing an ASM instance from DB Console - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 17, 2009 - Blocking access to Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 16, 2009 - Bert Scalzo Researches Oracle Blocksizes - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 13, 2009 - How to store a PDF file into Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 12, 2009 - Oracle default tablespace tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 11, 2009 - Oracle MERGE Performance Issues - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 10, 2009 - Oracle Colored SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 9, 2009 - Oracle Visualization techniques - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 6, 2009 - Parallel_index hint tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 5, 2009 - Display all Oracle privileges within a database - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 4, 2009 - Recover a Deleted Open File in Linux - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 3, 2009 - Tuning Oracle parallel updates - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Mar 2, 2009 - Oracle optimal parallel degree tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 27, 2009 - What session has locked a PL/SQL package - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 26, 2009 - Display distinct multiple columns with SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 25, 2009 - Oracle MDM: Master Data Management - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 24, 2009 - Using v$sort_usage tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 23, 2009 - Loading large datasets with SQL*Loader - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 20, 2009 - Why use an American Oracle Training Class? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 19, 2009 - Oracle enqueue wait tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 18, 2009 - Using the Linux/UNIX fuser command with Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 17, 2009 - ORA-27092 tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 16, 2009 - Oracle 11g upgrade bug causes unnecessary disk sorts - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 13, 2009 - How much rollback segment spaced is used by a SQL session? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 12, 2009 - Oracle Management Downsizing Tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 11, 2009 - Oracle ACE Publishes User Group Hack - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 10, 2009 - Preventing Oracle chained migrated rows - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 9, 2009 - What is the difference between a chained row and a migrated row in Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Become an Oracle Proctologist! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 6, 2009 - Shell script to check the Oracle alert log - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 5, 2009 - Space management with LOB tables using PCTVERSION and RETENTION - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 4, 2009 - Using v$version in Oracle scripts - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 3, 2009 - Oracle uptime tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Feb 2, 2009 - Best scripting language for Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 30, 2009 - Using DDL in PL/SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 29, 2009 - Managing elderly Oracle databases - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 28, 2009 - Oracle uptime tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 27, 2009 - Understanding Oracle troubleshooting - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 26, 2009 - Using Oracle ASM with RAC tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 23, 2009 - PL/SQL debugging tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 22, 2009 - Oracle active data guard tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 21, 2009 - Online AWR baselines - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 20, 2009 - How to become an Oracle programmer & developer - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 19, 2009 - ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 16, 2009 - How often should I apply Oracle CPU patches? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 15, 2009 - Quickly uninstall Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 14, 2009 - Oracle parallel recovery tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 13, 2009 - See which auditing Oracle features you have - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 12, 2009 - Don't miss RMOUG Oracle Training Days - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 9, 2009 - How to display your Oracle session ID number - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 8, 2009 - Evaluating Database Engineers - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 7, 2009 - Stonebraker speaks on Oracle technology - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 6, 2009 - Leap second causing New Years RAC node crashes - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Jan 5, 2009 - Oracle customers complains about the high costs, low quality support - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Our Merry Christmas Video -  by Don Burleson

Jan 2, 2009 - WARNING: Do not use AMM with Linux Hugepages - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 23, 2008 - How often should I apply Oracle CPU patches? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 22, 2008 - Quickly uninstall Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 19, 2008 - Oracle parallel recovery tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 18, 2008 - See which auditing Oracle features you have - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 17, 2008 - Identifying Oracle professionals for layoffs - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 16, 2008 - Bert Scalzo wins Oracle ACE award - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 12, 2008 - RAC JDBC tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson 

Dec 11, 2008 - How to insert a BLOB image from a client PC - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 10, 2008 - Script to monitor the alert log - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 9, 2008 - What is a "fuzzy" Oracle file? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 8, 2008 - Database design issues and gay marriages! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 5, 2008 - Creating XML with PL/SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 4, 2008 - Differences between Oracle 9i and 10g - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 3, 2008 - Automatic tuning of db_file multiblock_read_count - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 2, 2008 - Invoking an Oracle bat file from dbms_scheduler - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Dec 1, 2008 - Does familiarity breed contempt? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 28, 2008 - Oracle 11g upgrade bug causes unnecessary disk sorts - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 27, 2008 - SQL to find the previous word in a text string - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 26, 2008 - How to flush the data buffer cache - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 25, 2008 - New Google feature allows you to customize your Oracle search results - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 24, 2008 - The Oracle "Scott/tiger" User - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 21, 2008 - Oracle Pivot examples - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 20, 2008 - Troubleshooting Oracle performance - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 19, 2008 - How to do a loop in Oracle SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 18, 2008 - ORA-12542: TNS:address already in use tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 17, 2008 - Fun News! - Origin "Meanwhile back at the ranch" - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 14, 2008 - How to find leading and trailing spaces - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 13, 2008 - Repair corrupt blocks in 11g with the Data Recovery Adviser - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 12, 2008 - TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 11, 2008 - Limitations of Apex? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 10, 2008 - Fun News! - Fake Indians pan flute bands invade Europe - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 7, 2008 - Scheduling job on specific instances - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 6, 2008 - Oracle RAC instance affinity tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 5, 2008 - Oracle Gurus slam new Oracle support sites - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 5, 2008 - PL/SQL debugger tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 4, 2008 - Using Cube Oriented Materialized Views - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Nov 3, 2008 - Fun News! - Halloween costumes for dogs - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 31, 2008 - My Oracle Support Community ("mosque") to replace MetaLink - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 30, 2008 - Get faster performance with composite bitmap indexes - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 29, 2008 - Oracle Apex manager Carl Backstrom, dead at 35 - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 28, 2008 - Oracle auditing tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 27, 2008 - Fun News - The best Halloween pumpkins - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 23, 2008 - Oracle Parallel Automatic Tuning tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 22, 2008 - How to Monitor CPU usage in UNIX - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 21, 2008 - Why doesn't Oracle use my index? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 20, 2008 - Oracle is a profession, not a trade! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 17, 2008 - Oracle PL/SQL developer programmer job duties - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 16, 2008 - Detecting CPU bottlenecks in Windows - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 15, 2008 - Inside Oracle cloud Computing - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 14, 2008 - Using dbms_space create_table_cost - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 13, 2008 - Learn Database Management from Tiko the Fairy- Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 10, 2008 - Which operating system OS is best for Oracle? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 9, 2008 - Oracle partitioning and derived horizontal fragmentation (DHF) - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 8, 2008 - SQL*Loader readsize tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 7, 2008 - Understanding Oracle fusion - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 6, 2008 - Fixing different execution plans with different bind variable values - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 3, 2008 - Oracle partitioning and derived horizontal fragmentation (DHF) - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 2, 2008 - Oracle troubleshooting Tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Oct 1, 2008 - Oracle update statement syntax - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 30, 2008 - Hypercharge Oracle truncate table performance - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 29, 2008 - How to compare two Oracle database schemas - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 26, 2008 - Inside Oracle Streams Configuration Change Data Capture - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 25, 2008 - Breaking News – Oracle becomes a hardware vendor - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 24, 2008 - How to select a LONG table column - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 23, 2008 - Fixing the "kkjcre1p: unable to spawn jobq slave process" error - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 22, 2008 - The three steps of "cum laude" - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 19, 2008 - How to re-compile PL/SQL packages - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 18, 2008 - How to create an Oracle PL/SQL package body - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 17, 2008 - Alter system switch logfile tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 16, 2008 - What to check when an export "hangs" - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 15, 2008 - Inside the pickler fetch - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 12, 2008 - ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 11, 2008 - v$resource_limit tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 10, 2008 - Use RMAN to copy/clone a database - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 9, 2008 - Monitoring CPU with UNIX - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 8, 2008 - How to move a table with a LOB column - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 5, 2008 - Finding the length of a LOB - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 4, 2008 - Exporting and importing Oracle AWR STATSPACK snapshots - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 3, 2008 - Overtime pay for salaried computer professionals? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 2, 2008 - Understanding db_keep_cache_size - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Sept 1, 2008 - Using _db_file_noncontig mblock_read_count - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 29, 2008 - Problem Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 28, 2008 - Using ionice for Oracle? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 27, 2008 - difference between ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 26, 2008 - Oracle test data & date generation with SQL - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 25, 2008 - SQL explain plan does not match execution statistics - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 22, 2008 - The _diag_daemon parameter and Oracle freezing - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 21, 2008 - Using utl_match to compare string similarity - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 20, 2008 - ORA-28112: failed to execute policy function tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 19, 2008 - Using gather_stats_job - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 18, 2008 - Fun News - Make your own presidential campaign news report - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 15, 2008 - Important suboptimal blocksize alert - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 14, 2008 - Setting server swap space for Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 13, 2008 - statistics_level parameter tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 12, 2008 - Storing XML documents in Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 11, 2008 - Web 2.0 MetaLink now online! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 8, 2008 - gather_plan_statistics hint tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 7, 2008 - Oracle Continuous Connection Network (OCCN) - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 6, 2008 - Learning by Analogy: Fallacious reasoning - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 5, 2008 - Oracle speaks on 10g migration tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 4, 2008 - British hacker to face American Justice - Oracle News by Don Burleson

Aug 1, 2008 - Removing jobs from the job queue - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 31, 2008 - Scum publishes hack - Oracle issues emergency patch - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 30, 2008 - Capture a workload in 10g for 11g - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 29, 2008 - Oracle dbms_sqlhash tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 28, 2008 - Using the "alter system dump" command - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 25, 2008 - How to execute dynamic PL/SQL procedure calls - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 24, 2008 - San Francisco city Network Administrator arrested! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 23, 2008 - 11g adaptive cursor sharing tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 22, 2008 - Oracle test data generation tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 21, 2008 - Sub-optimal SQL and the 11g CBO - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 18, 2008 - SQL Server on the web - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 17, 2008 - Monitoring Streams with DBA views - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 16, 2008 - Important New Cyberspace rulings - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 15, 2008 - Oracle optimizer_ignore_hints tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 14, 2008 - 2008 Oracle publishing market tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 11, 2008 - Tuning vendor SQL tricks - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 10, 2008 - Oracle vmware pros and cons - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 9, 2008 - Alter table move vs. shrink space commands - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 8, 2008 - “SQL*Net message to client” and network throughput - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 7, 2008 - Important Oracle Blocksize Performance bugs - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 4, 2008 - Oracle table join order tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 3, 2008 - Important Oracle 10g bug in index rebuilding - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 2, 2008 - Oracle data integration tools - Oracle News by Don Burleson

July 1, 2008 - Library cache overload tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 30, 2008 - UNIX/Linux e-mail consolidation - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 27, 2008 - Oracle standby archive_lag_target tips - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 26, 2008 - Oracle data protection - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 25, 2008 - Oracle 11g dbms_stats AUTO sample size - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 24, 2008 - PL/SQL coding standards tricks- Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 23, 2008 - Fun!  A visual guide to Oracle concepts! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 20, 2008 - Script to monitor RMAN progress- Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 19, 2008 - Oracle technical support tips- Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 18, 2008 - Oracle tuning Guru achieves 20x performance improvement - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 17, 2008 - Vista flub costs consumers billions - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 16, 2008 - Fun News! - Flavor Tripping - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 13, 2008 - Massive SQL injection attacks hit 10,000 databases - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 12, 2008 - Oracle export & import into earlier release - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 11, 2008 - DBA to outpace all other IT jobs! - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 10, 2008 - Oracle Synonyms - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 9, 2008 - Sun Servers to offer SSD - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 6, 2008 - Comparing Oracle tables - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 5, 2008 - ORA-04063 - Re-compiling PL/SQL procedures and packages - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 4, 2008 - Warning! - OTN forums infiltrated with virus spam - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 3, 2008 - ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress - Oracle News by Don Burleson

June 2, 2008 - Twitter accused of aiding criminals - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 30, 2008 - Optimal number of Oracle RAC nodes? - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 29, 2008 - Using OS and Hardware Clusters for Oracle failover - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 28, 2008 - Foiling lateral SQL injection threats for Oracle - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 27, 2008 - Oracle may waive hands-on course requirement for OCP - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 26, 2008 - Finding database geniuses - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 23, 2008 - Using _spin_count in 10g - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 22, 2008 - 10g patch required for DirectIO on Solaris - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 21, 2008 - Using _db_file_noncontig mblock_read_count - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 20, 2008 - Oracle migration best practices - Oracle News by Don Burleson

May 19, 2008 - Is Oracle masculine or feminine? - Oracle News by Don Burleson