Welcome to my new column. In it I will try to condense my previous activities to the major problems and fixes and, for that matter, general news related to Oracle DBAs and developers. I am constantly amazed at the number of posts that seem initially trivial, until I remember that I've probably posted the same questions at one time. But in many cases the poster has downloaded the Oracle product or products from the Web and does not have documentation.
Inherited duties are probably the biggest source of forum questions.
Everything was going fine until. . . We are an eclectic bunch, we Sysops and forum ghosts. For those who do a lot of SQL work, we even get the occasional visit from Joe Celko. We even see Mark Gurry once in a while. I have selected the following problems to discuss in this, my first column.