Infrastructure at your Service
This week I took some days off to do something related to my job but a bit different. I’ve given a course on Databases and SQL. But not for my usual customers. And not with the database I know the best. So, it is still in a domain that I know, but out of my comfort zone. And this is something that we should do more often because it gives a little apprehension and a…
Roles have been existing on many RDBMS for a long time by now. Starting from version 8.0, this functionality is finally there for MySQL. The most important advantage is to define only once a role that includes a “set of permissions”, then assign it to each user, avoiding wasting time declaring them individually. In MySQL, a role can be created like a user, but without the “identified by” clause and without login: mysqld2-(root@localhost) [(none)]> CREATE…
Beginning of this month EnterpriseDB announced a new version of its Failover Manager. Version 2.1 introduced controlled switchover operations, version 3.0 brought support for PostgreSQL 10 and now: What’s new in version 3.1? It might seem this is just a bugfix release but there is more and especially one enhancement I’ve waited for a long time.
After installing OJVM patch set update APR-2017 on a 11.2.0.4 database with PSU APR-2017 installed, first call of utl_dbws package was successful, but after a while utl_dbws calls failed always with ORA-29532 and bad_record_mac. All Java objects remained valid. Also after trying procedures described in MOS document 2314363.1 utl_dbws worked first time, after that it always failed. We could observe that after a while after restarting database m000 process ran and tried to recompile Java…
A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me how to restart containers automatically after a reboot of the underlying host. In his context, it was not an insignificant question because some containers are concerned by SQL Server databases and he wanted to stay relaxed as long as possible even after a maintenance of the Linux host by sysadmins. The concerned (DEV) environment doesn’t include container orchestration like Swarm or Kubernetes. The interesting point is…
Before Oracle 12.1 the methods used to configure ASM were • udev • asmlib Oracle 12.1 comes with a new method called Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD). In Oracle documentation we can find following: Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is a kernel module that resides in the I/O path of the Oracle ASM disks. Oracle ASM uses the filter driver to validate write I/O requests to Oracle ASM disks. The Oracle ASMFD simplifies…
There is time when you have build an SQL plan and then you want to fix it for all next executions of the query by your application. In this post I show how fix a plan you have created by yourself. First we need to identified the query SQL> select /* INDEX_ACCESS */ line_item_id, product_id, unit_price, quantity from ORDER_ITEMS where order_id = 234098 ; LINE_ITEM_ID PRODUCT_ID UNIT_PRICE QUANTITY ———— ———- ———- ———- 1 414 851…
Today at the SOUG Day I did some little demos and one of them was about creating typed tables. In the demo the two tables did not contain any rows and one of the questions was: When these tables contain a million of rows would adding a column be instant as well? Lets do a quick test.
I never wrote about data platform solutions on Azure so far. The fact is in Switzerland we’re definitely late about the Cloud adoption and Azure data platform solutions. There are different reasons that are more or less valid but I don’t want to contribute to any debate here. In any case the last announcements in this field with Azure data centers in Switzerland could encourage customers to reconsider this topic in the near future. Don’t…
With this trend of CQRS architectures where the transactions are streamed to a bunch of heterogenous eventually consistent polyglot-persistence microservices, logical replication and Change Data Capture becomes an important component, already at the architecture design phase. This is good for existing products vendors such as Oracle GoldenGate (which must be licensed even to use only the CDC part in the Oracle Database as Streams is going to be desupported) or Dbvisit replicate to Kafka. But…
