Even with all my good intentions, work and life challenges got in the way, and I have not been able to blog this year yet.
I still wanted to take part in the #JoelKallmanDay to honor Joel’s memory and to show my gratitude to the Oracle community.
In my (not so) new job at Oracle, I specialize in database migrations in the Cloud, with all sorts of databases and various migration strategies.
A quite common strategy is to use the powerful Oracle Data Pump utility. This blog post will not be about Data Pump, but rather about a very specific column in the dictionary views that I love very much, and that I use every minute of each of my work days (ok, I may be exaggerating a little): ORACLE_MAINTAINED