No topic quite gets emotions rolling as much as the Oracle Query Optimizer. Thus you might expect that one of the least enviable jobs in the database world would be being the public face of the database optimizer. But since 2014, Nigel Bayliss has regularly fronted the community and shared the depth and breadth of his optimizer knowledge, whilst entertaining us with his sardonic wit on the challenges of databases and database optimizers.

In this episode, Nigel and I tackle the area that perhaps causes the most anxiety for database professionals when it comes to the optimizer, that is, what is going to change when upgrade. Keep updated on the optimizer at https://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer 

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