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Auditing Enhancements in Oracle Database 21c: A New Era of Governance and Security

June 11, 2025

Auditing Enhancements in Oracle Database 21c 🔐 Auditing Enhancements in Oracle Database 21c Oracle Database 21c introduces powerful auditing improvements designed to increase real-time observability, enhance security compliance, and support modern enterprise governance strategies. This article covers all major enhancements to Unified Auditing in 21c, including STIG compliance, immediate policy activation, and protocol auditing. ❌…
Mastering Concurrent Materialized View Refreshes in Oracle Database 23ai: A Deep-Dive for Experienced DBAs

June 11, 2025

Mastering Concurrent Materialized View Refreshes in Oracle Database 23ai: A Deep-Dive for Experienced DBAs Materialized views serve as a keystone for performance tuning in Oracle databases, offering a persistent, precomputed store for results of resource-intensive queries. By using materialized views, organizations can deliver instant results for complex analytics and reporting applications, even as their transactional…
Turbocharging Oracle Data Loads: A DBA’s Field Guide

May 21, 2025

After 15 years optimizing database performance, I’ve found that few improvements deliver more business value than accelerating data loader jobs. Whether you’re running nightly ETL processes or real-time data integration, slow data loads can bottleneck your entire operation. Here’s my field-tested playbook for speeding up Oracle data loads in production environments. Choose the Right Loading…
Efficient Management of Bigfile Tablespaces in Oracle Database

April 10, 2025

In modern database management, efficiency and optimization are pivotal, especially when dealing with large datasets in Oracle Database. This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to create, analyze, and manage a bigfile tablespace effectively, with particular emphasis on shrinking operations to reclaim unused space. Setup: Creating a Tablespace and User First, we need to…
Unlocking Powerful Database Object Metadata with Oracle’s DBMS_DEVELOPER Package

April 1, 2025

Enhancing Database Management with Oracle’s DBMS_DEVELOPER Package In the world of database management, having access to metadata is crucial for maintaining and optimizing database performance. Oracle’s `DBMS_DEVELOPER` package, newly introduced in Oracle Database 23ai, provides robust tools for retrieving detailed metadata about database objects in a structured JSON format. This article will explore the functionality…