Internals of querying the concurrent requests' queue - revisited for R12.2 April 19, 2016 Once upon a time I wrote about the Internal Workflow of an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager...
Network multicast support on Azure February 4, 2016 Today I would like to talk about multicast support on Azure, and how to make it work. While it's...
Creating a Physical Standby with RMAN Active Duplicate in 11.2.0.3 May 28, 2013 Other DBAs have written about this topic, but I wanted it to be available on Pythian's blog. When I...
Opening the Door Without the Keys April 24, 2013 This week, my DBA team fulfilled a request to restore 1 month old lost data. A review of the RMAN...
Hashing Algorithm in MySQL PASSWORD() December 4, 2011 Recently we had a question from a customer: what is the hashing algorithm implemented in PASSWORD()...