Hi, Maybe you have wanted to use longer object names to be more descriptive. The Oracle RDBMS now supports up to 128 positions for both object and column names! The current naming length convention is...
I was able to attend the Oracle Open World 2016 event this past fall. Last April, I posted a nice series on In-memory, material I had gathered from Oracle PM Andy Revenes (heck of a nice guy). Here a...
If you are coming to this page by searching, then I am sure that you are in big trouble. I have come across this error and my SQL Server was not getting started. When I looked into ERRORLOG, I found b...
A question came to me from a DBA friend asking about SQL differences between releases of the database. IE: behavioral differences in SQL processing. The question posed by this person was that they fe...
There was a question from the op regarding adding a new column to a query output by generating the cyclic sequence numbers from 1 to 3. Select A =identity(int,1,1),B,C from table_abs1,A,412,B,133,C,9...
Introduction Deploying MySQL on Amazon RDS has more benefits than traditional datacenter deployment; for example we don’t have to purchase and manage hardware for replacing failed disks or upgrading ...
Oracle Database raises an exception when something goes wrong (examples: divide by zero, duplicate value on unique index, value too large to fit in variable, etc.). You can also raise exceptions when ...
A lot’s been said about last week’s Gitlab outage so I’m not going to go over the details here but I do want to talk about one point that was when I was watching the guys fix the issue live on youtube...
Over the past 6 months I have been trying to push myself to use extended events (XEvents) over SQL trace, once you get past the learning curve it’s probably the way to go. If you are operating in the ...
I am used to exploring what is available in the technology of love – SQL Server. As I was exploring into one of the simplest set of DMVs which have been available for ages. There are several ways to g...
Question: How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics? Answer: I have received this question after watching my free webinar on group by conference by one of the user. I really lov...
I was trying to set up database mirroring in my freshly created Azure Virtual Machines and encountered an error. The error was talking about the connectivity problem, but it was something else. Let us...
