Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . I’ll present about join methods at POUG and DOAG. I’ll show how the different join methods work in order to better understand them. The idea is to show Nested Loops, Hash Join, Sort Merge Join, Merge Join Cartesian on the same query. I’ll run a simple join between DEPT and EMP with the USE_NL, USE_HASH, USE_MERGE and USE_MERGE_CARTESIAN hints. I’ll show the execution plan, with SQL Monitoring in text mode. And…
By Franck Pachot . You have the feeling that your table takes more blocks than it should? Here are the queries I use to quickly check the free space. The idea is to call DBMS_SPACE.SPACE_USAGE and infer the minimum space from the percentages. For example, a block in FS3 (defined as having at least 50 to 75% free space) is supposed to have at least 50% of free space. Of course it can have more,…
By Franck Pachot . The Linux prerequisites for Oracle Database are all documented but using the pre-install rpm makes all things easier. Before 18c, this was easy on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) but not so easy on RedHat (RHEL) where the .rpm had many dependencies on OEL and UEK. Now that 18c is there to download, there’s also the 18c preinstall rpm and the good news is that it can be run also on RHEL…
By Franck Pachot . Good news, the latest Patchset for Oracle 12cR2 (which is not named patchset anymore, is actually called release 18c and numbered 18.0.0.0.0) is available for download on OTN. It is great because OTN download does not require access to Support and Software Updates. It is available to anybody under the Free Developer License Terms (basically development, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating for an application that is not in production and for non-commercial…
By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database is fully supported on Docker according that Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 with Unbreakable Enterprise 4. This is documented in MOS Note 2216342.1. Given the size of the Oracle database in GigaBytes even empty, the way it is installed at build with many file updates, and the per-block modifications of the datafiles, a block level copy-on-write filesystem is a must and…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve created a Google Cloud Spanner database and inserted a few rows from the GUI. This is definitely not a solution fo many rows and here is a post about using the command line.
By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database focused on scalability without compromising consistency and integrity. It is available only as a managed service in Google Cloud. Basically, the idea is to keep the scalability advantages of NoSQL database (like Bigtable) but adding transactions, relational tables, SQL, structured data,… as in the relational databases we love for decades. The commercial pitch includes all the NoSQL buzzwords, with the addition of the…
By Franck Pachot . In pgSentinel: the sampling approach for PostgreSQL I mentioned that one of the advantages of the ASH approach is the ability to drill down from an overview of the database activity, down to the details where we can do some tuning. The idea is to always focus on the components which are relevant to our tuning goal: Filter/Group by the relevant dimension to focus on what you want to tune (a…
By Franck Pachot . Here is the first test I did with the beta of pgSentinel. This Active Session History sampling is a new approach to Postgres tuning. For people coming from Oracle, this is something that has made our life a lot easier to optimize database applications. Here is a quick example showing how it links together some information that are missing without this extension.
By Franck Pachot . The file name convert parameters are not dynamic and require a restart of the instance. An enhancement request was filled in 2011. I mentioned recently on Twitter that it can be annoying with Active Data Guard when a file on the primary server is created on a path that has no file name conversion. However, Ian Baugaard mentioned that there is a workaround for this specific case because db_create_file_dest is dynamic:
