February 2016 archive

Oracle 12c IDENTIFIED BY VALUES

Since I can recall in my career working with Oracle, I’ve been able to modify a user’s password to the password hash. The trick I’ve sometimes employed was to store the userid/password hash, change the password to something I know, connect to the database as that user and then do my work. When done with …

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A Tale Of Two Clustering Factors

I was looking at a post on the MOSC forums today about the Clustering Factor (CF) for an index. One thing that people tend to forget when talking about the CF is that while the DBA can do some reorg activity to improve the CF for an index, it will potentially come at the expense …

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