Infrastructure at your Service
During this second day at Oracle Open World 2018 (24.10.2018) I attended to Mark Hurd’s keynote name “Accelerating Growth in the Cloud. Several famous people participated to this keynote such as: Ian Bremmer who is the president and founder of Eurasia Group and according to Oracle “the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Mr Bremmer is also the president and founder of GZERO Media.” Sherry Aaholm who is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer…
Today (22.10.2018) my colleague Mouhamadou and me had the opportunity to make a bike trip (#BikeB4OOW) organized by Bryn Llewellyn product manager for Oracle PL/SQL and Edition Based Redefinition (EBR). We were well accompagnied with several other famous people such as Franck Pachot, Mike Dietrich, Pieter Van Puymbroeck, Liesbeth Van Raemd and Ivaca Arsov.. Just to name few of them. We started our trip beside the Golden Gate at the Welcome Center at 10:00 am in…
Oracle Clusterware 18c builds on this innovative technology by further enhancing support for larger multi-cluster environments and improving the overall ease of use. Oracle Clusterware is leveraged in the cloud in order to provide enterprise-class resiliency where required and dynamic as well as online allocation of compute resources where needed, when needed. Oracle Grid Infrastructure provides the necessary components to manage high availability (HA) for any business critical application. HA in consolidated environments is no…
Plan stability preserves execution plans in stored outlines. An outline is implemented as a set of optimizer hints that are associated with the SQL statement. If the use of the outline is enabled for the statement, then Oracle Database automatically considers the stored hints and tries to generate an execution plan in accordance with those hints (Oracle documentation). Oracle Database can create a public or private stored outline for one or all SQL statements. The…
By Franck Pachot . COMMIT is the SQL statement that ends a transaction, with two goals: persistence (changes are durable) and sharing (changes are visible to others). That’s a weird title and introduction for the 499th blog post I write on the dbi-services blog. 499 posts in nearly 5 years- roughly two blog posts per week. This activity was mainly motivated by the will to persist and share what I learn every day.
It should never happen but sometimes it happens. You just lost your datafiles as well as your fast recovery area (probably because most of the time these areas are on the same disks despite the recommendations). Normal restore operations with RMAN are quite easy and secure as far as you have backupsets for database, archivelogs, and spfile/controlfile: Step 1 – restore the spfile and start the instance Step 2 – restore the controlfile and mount…
By Franck Pachot . I know that lot of people are against the ANSI join syntax in Oracle. And this goes beyond the limits when talking about NATURAL JOIN. But I like them and use them quite often. Why is Natural Join bad? Natural join is bad because it relies on column names, and, at the time of writing the query, you don’t know which columns will be added or removed later. Here is an…
By Franck Pachot . This is research only and totally unsupported. When building docker images to run Oracle Database in a container, we try to get the smallest image possible. One way is to remove some subdirectories that we know will not be used. For example, the patch history is not used anymore once we have the required version. The dbca templates can be removed as soon as we have created the database… In this…
Backup on disk with RMAN is great. It’s fast, you can set as many channels as your platform can handle for faster backups. And you can restore as fast as you can read and write files on disk with these multiple channels. As far as you’re using Enterprise Edition because Standard Edition is stuck to a single channel. Disk space is very often limited and you’ll probably have to find another solution to keep backups…
By Franck Pachot . You find two different ‘runInstaller’ under an Oracle Home. The old one, the Oracle Universal Installer, in $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin. And the new one, in $ORACLE_HOME directly. They have the same name but are completely different. The old one was used to install an Oracle Home from the installation media. But in 18c you don’t use it. It has been used by Oracle to build the Oracle Home image. Then you download and…
