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Connor McDonald on SQL and the Oracle Database
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No more stale statistics in 19c
There is an odd contradiction that we all encounter for most databases, especially if they are predominantly used during the business day. Here is how that contradiction comes to be – it is in the way that we obtain and use optimizer statistics on…
Plugzilla!
Cloning a pluggable database takes time, and for environments where you’d like to use clones as part of unit testing, or other elements of Agile development, it would be nice to be able to bring a clone into operation in the smallest time possible….
Autonomous Transaction Processing – your slice of the pie
I grabbed the following screen shot from a slide deck I’ve been giving about Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP). It shows the services that are made available to you once you create your database. At first glance, it looks like we have a simple tier,…
Take a COPY out of SQLcl’s book
As the world continues to get smaller, it makes sense for all databases to be defined to handle more than just US7ASCII, which is why the default characterset for all recent versions of the Oracle database is AL32UTF8. In that way, we can handle…
Statistics on Load
One of the talks I gave recently on the Groundbreaker Yatra tour was on the changes that arrive with the optimizer when you move to 12c and above. We talked about changes to histograms, all of the adaptive features etc, but also, one of…
It’s back!
Yes indeed! Now that the dates and times are available for OpenWorld 2019, then it is naturally time for the best data searching, filtering and analysis tool on the planet to step up to the plate, enter the fray and …. hmmm… I’ve run…
HIGH_VALUE (and other LONG columns) revisited
Just a quick post to ensure people don’t get caught out by a recent “trick” I saw on an AskTOM question for extracting the HIGH_VALUE out of it’s LONG storage in the dictionary to a more appropriate datatype. A reviewer (I’m sure in good…
