Neil Chandler begins this blog with, “Gathering object statistic in Oracle is important. The optimizer needs metadata about the object, such as the amount of rows and number of distinct values in a column, to help it decide the optimum way to access your data. This takes effort, and takes…
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Monthly Round Up
This blog by Federico Venturin links to his article ‘Handling Fine-Grained Data Visualization Permissions in Oracle Analytics Cloud.’ It goes through: In his conclusion, he writes, “Until now, the all-or-nothing approach for handling permissions in Data Visualization posed a significant hurdle to its widespread adoption since administrators understandably preferred to…
Monthly Round Up – December 2023
Some of the best blogs I’ve read in the last month or so: This blog begins with, “I started some home lab cleanup this long weekend, and one of the first steps was to set up a separate DNS server for the lab. This is really just to make it…
Monthly Round Up
Blogs of the Month 1.How to study for 1z0-1067-23 – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Professional In this blog, Alex Zaballa gives some vital tips on what to focus on for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Professional. He suggests you focus on: He also includes some handy…
Monthly Round Up
Blogs of the month Here’s 10 of the best from the last few weeks: 1.Enabling Search Framework Real Time Indexing (RTI) Jim Marion writes, “As we prepare our HCM PUM 46 training servers, we decided to enable Real Time Indexing (RTI). We found several great sample videos and resources but still made…
What’s going on this February?
Blogs of the month Patching my environments with the January 2023 Bundle Patches Mike Dietrich shares information about January’s Security Alert and gives a quick overview of the patch bundles he intends to apply to his 19c and 21c environments. 2. Fixing up oem 11g This blog begins with, “Although oracle enterprise…
Pre-Christmas Blog
I’d love to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful festive season – and all the very best for 2023. If you’ve got a few moments amongst the mince pie eating, here are some great blogs and videos to read and watch: Blogs of the month Star Schema Design…
Autumn Days…
Blogs of the month 1.10 Best Database Management Software of 2021 (+ Examples) This blog lists the Best Database Management Software as: ManageEngine Applications Manager DBeaver Raima Database Manager Valentina Redis Enterprise DbVisualizer Oracle Database Database Labs Sadas Engine Percona Monitoring and Management and gives an extensive overview of each….
Best of last year
Here is my take on the good reading stuff from last year. Obviously there is a bit of a covid theme to a lot of the blogs I read, but also some great tech updates. Learn how Oracle used APEX to quickly launch its COVID-19 therapeutic app Read about how…
Latest blogs and videos
Just a few for these chilly October/November evenings … Blogs of the Week 1. Announcing Oracle APEX 20.2 Joel Kallman shares (the original post is here) : “This release of APEX introduces several new features and enhancements to help developers be more productive than ever before. From the all new Cards…