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a set of square shelves each holding various jars of spices being a metaphor for a database partitioned table
April 22, 2022 Uncategorized

Implementing dynamic partitions AND subpartitions

One of the cool things to come out of the partitioning option many moons ago was the feature known as

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June 4, 2021 Uncategorized

Parallel DML and locking – going manual

Generally speaking, if you have a giant chunk of data over “here”, and you need to load it into a

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May 31, 2021 Uncategorized

Data loads on INTERVAL partitioned tables

Why interval partitioning is cool Before 11g, partitioning a table immediately stepped up the responsibilities of the database administrator, because

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June 18, 2020 Uncategorized

Take care with Read-Only partitions in 18c

The ability for part of a table to be read-only and other parts of the same table to allow full

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April 30, 2020 Uncategorized

Why you might add columns to external tables

Let me start with the idiotic part first. That part would be…. me! I’ll create an external table which reads

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July 8, 2019 Uncategorized

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

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June 29, 2019 Uncategorized

MERGE and ORA-8006

I’m sure there will be a slew of post-Kscope wrap up posts coming out into the blogosphere, so in lieu

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May 2, 2019 Uncategorized

Partition loading in direct mode

Direct mode insert using the APPEND hint is a cool piece of technology that lets you load bulk data into

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April 29, 2019 Uncategorized

Raw partitions?

Here’s a quirky one for you. It can happen when you are dealing with a partitioned table where the partition

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November 28, 2018 Uncategorized

The phantom tablespace

(Cueing my deep baritone Morpheus voice…) What if I told you that you can reference non-existent tablespaces in your DDL?

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