Oracle Exadata users have long known that the available compression levels for HCC provide both extreme compression (lower storage footprint) and in many cases improved
Month: February 2019
I Think About George Boole Quite Often
George Boole is dead. Long live Booleans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean Especially when it comes to boolean data types being forever restricted from seeing the light of day
Oracle Compression Syntax Part 1: Read the Freakin’ Manual?
(Updated 6/4/2020 to reflect incremental features in upcoming 20c release). “Bigger on the inside? No. Basic miniaturisation sustained by a compression field. Watch what you
There are Three Types of Bugs: Unpublished, Published, and Features
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. A newly discovered bug in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 (October 2018 RU) is causing quite a bit of
All Kinds of Exadata Stuff 