Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . Note that I’ve written previously about Oracle Standard Edition 2 licensing before but a few rules change. This is written in May 2020. TL;DR: 4 vCPU count for 1 socket and 2 sockets count for 1 server wherever hyper-threading is enabled or not. The SE2 rules I think the Standard Edition rules are quite clear now: maximum server capacity, cluster limit, minimum NUP, and processor metric. Oracle has them in the…
What is Nagios ? “Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.” https://www.nagios.org/ In simple words, you can monitor your servers (linux, MSSSQL, etc …) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc …) with nagios. We use the free version !!! 😀 VM configuration : OS : CentOS Linux 7 CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4…
Everybody has already faced performance problem with oracle CLOB columns. The aim of this blog is to show you (always from a real user case) how to use one of Oracle Text Indexes (CONTEXT index) to solve performance problem with CLOB column. The oracle text complete documentation is here : Text Application Developer’s Guide Let’s start with the following SQL query which take more than 6.18 minutes to execute : SQL> set timing on SQL>…
By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not limited in time (I still have the 11g XE I’ve created 2 years ago running there) being able to use 40% of CPU with 2GB of RAM: top – 21:53:10 up 16 min, 4 users, load average:…
Introduction If you’re considering ODA for your next platform, you surely already appreciate the simplicity of the offer. 3 models with few options, this is definitely easy to choose from. One of the other benefit is also the hardware support of 5 years, and combined with software updates generally available for up to 7 years old ODAs, you can keep your ODA running even longer for non-critical databases and/or if you have a strong Disaster…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post https://blog.dbi-services.com/awr-dont-store-explain-plan-predicates/ I explained this limitation in gathering filter and access predicates by Statspack and then AWR because of old bugs about reverse parsing of predicates. Oracle listens to its customers through support (enhancement requests), though the community (votes on database ideas), and through the product managers who participate in User Groups and ACE program. And here it is: in 20c the predicates are collected by AWS and…
In contrary of views, materialized views avoid executing the SQL query for every access by storing the result set of the query. When a master table is modified, the related materialized view becomes stale and a refresh is necessary to have the materialized view up to date. I will not show you the materialized view concepts, the Oracle Datawarehouse Guide is perfect for that. I will show you, from a user real case, all steps…
For the second and last virtual conference day, I decided to attend presentations on following topics: – Universal Theme new features – Oracle APEX Source Code Management and Release Lifecycle – Why Google Hates My APEX App – We ain’t got no time! Pragmatic testing with utPLSQL – Why APEX developers should know FLASHBACK – ORDS – Behind the scenes … and more! and the day ended with a keynote from Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman about “Becoming…
By Clemens Bleile After cloning e.g. a production database into a database for development or testing purposes, the DBA has to make sure that no activities in the cloned database have an impact on data in other production databases. Because after cloning production data jobs may still try to modify data through e.g. db-links. I.e. scheduled database jobs must not start in the cloned DB and applications connecting to the cloned database must not modify…
This year the APEX connect conference goes virtual online, like all other major IT events, due to the pandemic. Unfortunately it spans only over two days with mixed topics around APEX, like JavaScript, PL/SQL and much more. After the welcome speech and the very interesting Keynote about “APEX 20.1 and beyond: News from APEX Development” by Carsten Czarski, I decided to attend presentations on following topics: – The Basics of Deep Learning – “Make it…
