Doing a quick PoC, I've had to spin up 11g on very short notice. While anarchy is fun, I typically prefer a more guided approach. Despi...

Or the CHAR edition. A report writer asked me why this report isn't returning any rows. So I brought up the report, ran it, then grabb...

Database Features This may have been self inflicted, there is really no way to know. This is somewhat related to Gotcha #1 . The Problem We...

I received this wonderfully informative error this evening: Value[nQSError: 36006] Promotion of checkout lock on Value to exclusive failed. ...

This one bit me hard today and it shouldn't have. I should have followed my instincts...instead I trusted the tool. ID10T . So here we...

Another, funny in hindsight, continuation on Gotcha #1 . Sadly I can't speak to the specifics of what I was doing but it did involve the...

When generating SQL for testing, make sure you set the database to the database you will be running against. I found this out the fun way, o...