This document provides tips and tricks for database administrators (DBAs) related to Oracle database administration. It discusses using the DBMS_ADVANCED_REWRITE package to transform queries and improve performance, techniques for data masking and protecting sensitive data, using data versioning and repositories, making smaller copies of production databases using Data Pump, various Data Pump techniques including cloning users and changing tablespaces, and using the Data Recovery Advisor. It also provides information on the Oracle ACE program for community members.