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Chris Antognini
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Striving for Optimal Performance
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Reposted by Chris Antognini
For those who can't past the paywall, you can also find the list of books here:

fiendatcourt.com/six-books-ab...
Six Books About Tennis's Greatest Players (According to the Economist)
Explore eight must-read tennis books according to The Economist. This roundup includes capsules of my original reviews for each title.
fiendatcourt.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The issue was due to the COLUMN TRANSFORM clause. According to my tests:
- COLUMN TRANSFORM is needed when NO offset/length is specified.
- COLUMN TRANSFORM is NOT needed when offset/length is specified.
Even though I don't understand why such an inconsistency exists, now I know how to implement it.
June 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The non-working example provided in the documentation can be found in "Oracle Database Utilities Guide - 18.7.2.2 Loading LOBs from LOBFILE Files".
docs.oracle.com/en/database/...
Utilities
Learn from these examples how to use the ORACLE_LOADER, ORACLE_DATAPUMP,ORACLE_HDFS, ORACLE_HIVE access drivers, and to use external tables with vector data.
docs.oracle.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I also don't use mine that often. But, I'm not ready to get rid of it. Let's see how long it will take...
May 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If it's related to wind, I guess that there are still plenty of electrical overhead lines. In CH, except for trains and HT, they are getting very rare...
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Out of curiosity, what's the frequency of power cuts?
April 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
According to Oracle Support it's bug 36628068 - HIGH CONTENTION ON SHARED POOL LATCH WHEN ALLOCATING FSO SCN FIELDS. Waiting on a backport to verify how good the patch works.
April 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM