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Archive of entries posted on 11th July 2009

Congratulations to my mate Paul!

Just a quick note to say congratulations to Paul Till, a mate of mine, at my current client, who has recently passed his OCM certification. I knew Paul was good, from having worked with him, on a DR implementation / upgrade for a large DW, but I hadn’t realised how good. As certifications go, it’s [...]

$deleted$ tablespace names bug

This one turned out to be a an interesting bug the other day… I did a simple select from DBA_TAB_PARTITIONS and noticed that some tablespace_names were of the form “_$deleted$n$m” where n and m are numbers. Slightly worrying, but at least the data was all present and correct, when I checked. I knew the DBA [...]