Oracle development

What’s your Oracle story?

Have you made an impact using Oracle in your organization? Have you accomplished any of the following tasks:

• Significantly improved database or applications performance
• Solved a major business dilemma or reduced budget spending
• Automated or...

Oracle bigger than Microsoft? The crowd responds

The question of whether Oracle will become bigger than Microsoft has Oracle users talking. And it was a bit  surprising to see so may

Spam filters are dumb

Several in the Oracle blogosphere (including Doug Burns, Niall Litchfield and

Talking about Oracle

I'm happy to announce the debut of Oracle Talk. Oracle Talk is our new biweekly podcast series all about...

SQL FAQ for beginners, non-beginners and cheaters

I field the questions that come to our Ask the Expert section—deleting spam and nonsense and otherwise undesirable questions before forwarding the potentially answerable ones on to our panel of experts. I...

More security horror stories

Don adds these tales of woe to our growing collection of Oracle security bloopers: ********************************** We received a call from a client who was complaining of...

Log Buffer #50: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

I’m honored to cover the 50th edition (that’s right, the golden anniversary) of the venerable Log Buffer this week -- thanks to Dave Edwards of the Pythian Group Blog for the...

Oracle 11g beta testing looks promising

Tim of the Oracle-Base blog says he doubts Oracle 11g will actually debut next month (he’s thinking the “launch date” is actually a date range starting with July 11 and ending with December 31). But when it...

Is Oracle relational? Redux

My post a few weeks ago, Thirty years of Oracle innovation — but is it really a RDBMS?, generated...

SQL interview questions; getting hired as a DBA

Are you looking for a new (or first) Oracle job? Worried about that big interview? (If you’re not, maybe you should be!) Here are a couple of resources to prepare you for your upcoming Oracle job interview. Robert Vollman, at his blog