12c Release 2

Little things worth knowing: redo transport in Data Guard 12.2 part 2

In the first part of this article I looked at a number of views and some…
Little things worth knowing: redo transport in Data Guard 12.2 part 1

I have researched Data Guard redo transport quite a bit, but so far haven’t really blogged…
Truncated CTAS statements seem to be no longer shortened

Many bloggers have already discussed that Oracle can truncate the text of a “create table as…
Changes to the Oracle preinstall RPMs in OL 7.3 and OL 7.4

For quite some time now Oracle has documented the use of the so-called preinstall RPMs to…
12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 5

Some time ago I had a very interesting twitter conversation after publishing the first part of…
12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 4

Flex Disk Group Properties In the previous 3 parts I shared my investigation into ASM Flex…
12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 3

In the previous 2 parts of this mini series I introduced the Flex ASM disk group…
12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 2

In the first part of this series I explained the basics and some potential motivation behind…
12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 1

I knew about the 12.2 FLEX ASM disk group type from other presenters but until now…
Taming XML data in the v$cell% family of Exadata views

While researching Exadata 12.2 features that have been introduced with Oracle 12.2.1.1.0 I ran into an…