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Connor McDonald on SQL and the Oracle Database
Tag: performance
Gooey GUIDs
Do a quick Google search and you’ll find plenty of blog posts about why GUIDs are superior to integers for a unique identifier, and of course, an equal number of posts about why integers are superior to GUIDs. In the Oracle world, most people…
Complex materialized views and fast refresh
Just a quick discovery that came across the AskTOM “desk” recently. We have an outstanding bug in some instances of fast refresh materialized views when the definition of the materialized view references a standard view. Here’s a simple demo of the issue – I’ll…
When WHEN went faster
Yeah…try saying that blog post title 10 times in a row as fast as you can But since we’re talking about doing things fast, this is just a quick post about a conversation I had a twitter yesterday about the WHEN clause in a…
“Call me!” Many many times!
Some readers might recall that classic Blondie track “Call me”. Of course, some readers might be wishing that I wouldn’t harp on about great songs from the 80’s. But bear with me, there is a (very tenuous) link to this post. If you haven’t…
Attribute clustering….super cool
I’ve spoken about attribute clustering before here, here and here. So from that you can probably glean that I’m a fan. I recently spoke about an example of this as well during my AskTOM Office Hours session which you can watch below: After posting…
You need scaling huh? Maybe it’s just ego
I’ve just come back from OracleCode Singapore. It was a great event – the venue was awesome and the attendees were engaged and interested in the content. But there was one thing that I found amusing (disturbing perhaps?) is the number of times I…
Hybrid histograms
Just a quick post here so I could consolidate some information about histograms in 12c. On my last Office Hours session, one of the questions that was posed was asking for an explanation of the new types of histograms in use in 12c. So…
Text indexes for numbers
We had an AskTOM question recently about being able to search for numbers within a concatenated list. The particular issue was a list of mobile phone numbers, but this is really just about tackling the larger issue of finding numbers within list. Let’s create…
Cool stuff with partition elimination
Sometimes in the IT world, the term “surprise” is not a good one. “I woke up this morning and got a surprise…my database was down.” “I ran a SELECT COUNT(*) on my most important table, and got a surprise result of zero rows.” and…
ROWNUM and ORDER BY
Just a quick revisit on an old topic so I could link to this post in a Stack Overflow discussion. SQL> create table t ( x int ); Table created. SQL> SQL> insert into t 2 select dbms_random.value(1,1000) 3 from dual 4 connect by…
Execution plans on LiveSQL
To protect the integrity of people’s data, and isolate sessions on LiveSQL, we lock down the environment. Clearly if you are doing some testing with sensitive data, you don’t want an anonymous member of the user community mining V$SQL to see what commands you…
NVL vs COALESCE
Jonathan Lewis just published a blog post about NVL and COALESCE and the optimizer costings for each. There is also perhaps a significant difference between NVL and COALESCE in that the former seems to have an in-built optimization for handling bind variables and nulls. …
