Infrastructure at your Service
We speak about the increasing interest in open source technologies since several years and now, in 2018, you even feel that at the DOAG. There are sessions about PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Docker, Kubernetes and much more. As usual we had to do our hard preparation work before the conference opened to the public and prepare our booth and Michael almost came to his limits (and maybe he was not even sure on what he was doing…
Introduction It has been 5 years I’m working on ODA and I now have a quite good overview of the pros and the cons of such a solution. On one hand, ODA can greatly streamline your Oracle Database environment if you understand the purpose of this appliance. On the other hand, ODA can be your nightmare if you’re not using it as it supposed to be used. Let’s discover the common mistakes to avoid from…
I had the pleasure to attend this morning (23.10.2018) to the session of Franck Pachot about Microservices. Between 70 and 100 peoples were present in the room to listen the ACE director, OAK table member and OCM speaking about microservices. Franck introduces microservices based on the fact that customers could want to get rid of their databases. Getting rid of your database because it’s shared, it contains persistent data and because you query it with…
Regarding the following “MOS Note Is Table SCHEMA.CMP4$222224 Or Similar Related To Compression Advisor? (Doc ID 1606356.1)”, we know that since Oracle 11.2.0.4 BP1 or Higher, due to the failure of Compression Advisor some tables with names that include “CMP”, created “temporary – the time the process is running” by Compression Advisor process (ie CMP4$23590) are not removed from the database as that should be the case. How theses tables are created ? How to…
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…
EnterpriseDB is a valuable actor in PostgreSQL’s world. In addition to provide support, they also deliver very useful tools to manage easily your Postgres environments. Among these we can mention EDB Enterprise Manager, EDB Backup & Recovery Tool, EDB Failover Manager, aso… With this post I will present one of the last in the family, EDB Postgres Migration Portal, a helpful tool to migrate from Oracle to Postgres. To acces to the Portal, use your…
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…
One of our customer has been initially creating a RMAN catalog on an Oracle database release 12.1.0.2.0 and was now intending to register new Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 databases. Registering the databases will be failing with errors : PL/SQL package RCAT.DBMS_RCVCAT version 12.01.00.02 in RCVCAT database is too old RMAN-06429: RCVCAT database is not compatible with this version of RMAN
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…
Recently I got an interesting request: The customer wanted to allow the application installation routine to create a guaranteed restore point without giving it all required privileges to do so. So the idea was to encapsulate creating and dropping a guaranteed restore point in a PLSQL package and granting the application owner the permission to execute the package. The problem with that approach is that SYSDBA-privileges are required to create a guaranteed restore point and…
