19c

Oracle has a long history of interactive tools for DBA and, as usual, the name has changed at each evolution for marketing reasons.

SQL*DBA had a Menu mode for text terminals. You may also remember DBA Studio. Then called Oracle Enterprise Manager with its SYSMAN repository and also referred to as OEM or EM. The per-database version has been called OEM “Database Control” and then “EM Express” in 12c. The multi-database version has been called according to the marketing tag “Grid Control” in 11g, and “Cloud Control” in 12c.

I’m currently writing up a few blog pieces on indexing in the Oracle Autonomous Database environments, but I thought I’ll begin by introducing what exactly are Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Services and some of my initial thoughts, as there’s still some confusion on all this. Introduced by Uncle Larry at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Oracle Autonomous […]

Advance warning: This post is a just another normal Friday morning rant. If you’re not interested in my pontificating, move along…nothing else to see here

Sometimes you can’t make use of a facility that you normally would, and you have to substitute in something else. For example, if I would normally take the train to the basketball game, but today it’s not running due to track maintenance, then I’ll take the bus. I have no problem with that, because there’s a reason that I can’t take the train that day.

What does get my goat is on a day when the train is running, you come to me and say:

It’s a simple requirement. We want to transform this:

SQL> select deptno, ename
  2  from   emp
  3  order by 1,2;

    DEPTNO ENAME
---------- ----------
        10 CLARK
        10 KING
        10 MILLER
        20 ADAMS
        20 FORD
        20 JONES
        20 SCOTT
        20 SMITH
        30 ALLEN
        30 BLAKE
        30 JAMES
        30 MARTIN
        30 TURNER
        30 WARD

into this: