Infrastructure at your Service
We still see some developers not declaring referential integrity constraints in datawarehouse databases because they think they don’t need it (integrity of data has been validated by the ETL). Here is a small demo I did to show why you need to declare them, and how to do it to avoid any overhead on the ETL.
With Oracle you can learn something every day. Today, preparing a migration to 12.2, I found all tables had locked statistics. I learned that it is the expected behavior since 10.2 when importing metadata_only including statistics, to avoid that the automatic job gathering comes and replaces the stats by ‘0 rows’.
I was going to end this series with the previous post because the last access path available in Postgres is a bit special: a Seq Scan that returns only a sample of the rows, at random. However, it is the occasion to come back to the difference between random and sequential reads.
In the previous post we have seen the cheapest way to get one row, reading only one block from its physical location. But that’s the optimal case where the row has not moved. I’ll (nearly) conclude this series about access path with an update.
In the previous post we have seen how Postgres and Oracle finds the table row from the index entry. It uses the TID / ROWID. I’ll focus on this access path and I will have covered all Postgres access paths to table data. Oracle ACCESS BY ROWID I start with Oracle because we already have seen the TABLE ACCESS BY ROWID. I’ll decompose an index acces to the table. The first step is getting the…
I’ve published a few month ago an article in the UKOUG OracleScene magazine on Improving Statspack Experience: quick setup script, changing settings, filling Idle Events,etc. In the article, I used dbms_job to schedule the snapshots, because I have this script for years and never took the time to do it with dbms_scheduler. Thanks to Nicolas Jardot here is the equivalent script using dbms_scheduler.
The old way to get a user dump trace file, for sql_trace (10046), Optimizer compilation trace (10053), lock trace (10704), Optimizer execution trace (10507),… is to go to the server trace directory. But if you don’t have access to the server (as in the ☁) the modern (12cR2) way is to select from V$DIAG_TRACE_FILE_CONTENTS. Before everybody is on 12.2 I’m sharing here a sqlplus script that I use for a long time to get the…
In the previous post we have seen a nice optimization to lower the consequences of bad correlation between the index and the table physical order: a bitmap, which may include false positives and then requires a ‘recheck’ of the condition, but with the goal to read each page only once. Now we are back to the well-clustered table where we have seen two possible access paths: IndexOnlyScan when all columns we need are in the…
There are 4 models of Oracle Database Appliance with the new ODA X6 which is for the moment the latest ODA hardware version. One is similar to the previous X5-2 one, and 3 smaller ones known as ODA Lite. They are 1 year old already, here is a small recap of the differences and links to more detail.
When working with WebLogic, there will probably be a moment when you will ask yourself: damn, what is wrong? Nowadays, software are so complex that it is kind of easy to introduce bugs/non-wanted behaviors in them… In this blog, I will present a small thing that just blew my mind when I faced it: I had a fully working WLS on which I executed a WLST script in order to configure the SSL Ciphers for…
