Automation simplifies life – until that script fails to run. All these processes are stuck in the “log jam”, with the problem waiting to be determined and cleared. In this blog, the following tips and procedures will assist on...

For those Toad for Oracle users that often execute long running queries using F9, they always ask me how they can still work in Toad without having to wait on the query to finish. The problem seems to be the user sees the dialog box below in Figure 1…

We’ve posted recently about database developers feeling left out of agile processes. You may wonder how application developers can have it so easy – scrums, sprints and automation – to deploy updates at what can seem like an astoni...

In database replication, “immediately” never feels quite fast enough for your users, does it? “We replicate transactions from production databases in real time,” you tell them. “You’ll see the change immediately, a...