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Tag: performance
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. …
NULL’s vs NOT NULL’s and Performance
When it comes to giving the cost based optimiser the best possible chance to make the “right” decisions, many DBA’s are diligent in keeping statistics up to date, using histograms where appropriate, creating more indexes (or removing surplus indexes). However one often neglected area…
Identity columns in 12c … just a sequence ?
This question came to me over Twitter, so I thought I’d whip out a quick post on it Yes, we do implement the IDENTITY column via a sequence. (Digression – I think this is a smart thing to do. After all, we’ve had…
Licensed for Advanced Compression? Don’t forget the network
We often think of Advanced Compression being exclusively about compressing data “at rest”, ie, on some sort of storage device. And don’t get me wrong, if we consider just that part of Advanced Compression, that still covers a myriad of opportunities that could yield…
iASH–my “infinite ASH” routine
I love Active Session History (ASH) data because a lot of the work I’ve done in my consulting life was “after the fact” diagnosis. By this I mean that many of us have been in a similar circumstance where the customer will contact you…
Partition-wise join
So just what is a “partition-wise” join ? We will use a metaphor to hopefully explain the benefit. Let’s say two people, Logan and Shannon, decide to move in together. If each of them already have an existing residence, they will both have a…
AskTOM TV episode 8
On AskTOM episode 8, I’ve taken a look at locating the SQL Plan Directives used for a particular query. Here is the script output from the video if you want to use this for your own exploration SQL> SQL> create table t as 2…
