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Tag: 19c
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…
DBMS_JOB – the joy of transactions
This is a followup to yesterdays post on DBMS_JOB and is critical if you’re upgrading to 19c soon. Mike Dietrich wrote a nice piece last week on the “under the covers” migration of the now deprecated DBMS_JOB package to the new Scheduler architecture. You…
DBMS_JOB – watching for failures
I had a friend point this one out to me recently. They use DBMS_JOB to allow some “fire and forget” style functionality for user, and in their case, the jobs are “best efforts” in that if they fail, it is not a big deal….
Use the features available!
Advance warning: This post is a just another normal Friday morning rant. If you’re not interested in my pontificating, move along…nothing else to see here Sometimes you can’t make use of a facility that you normally would, and you have to substitute in something…
LISTAGG hits prime time
It’s a simple requirement. We want to transform this: SQL> select deptno, ename 2 from emp 3 order by 1,2; DEPTNO ENAME ———- ———- 10 CLARK 10 KING 10 MILLER 20 ADAMS 20 FORD 20 JONES 20 SCOTT 20 SMITH 30 ALLEN 30 BLAKE…
