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September 9, 2021 Uncategorized

Can you solve this blocksize puzzle?

Here’s a little puzzle to get your mind working It is generally well known that there is a limit to

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October 7, 2020 Uncategorized

Why you keep getting "ORA-01653: unable to extend table"

Space management used to be hard Way back in the good old days…In fact, before I continue, rest assured that

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October 2, 2020 Uncategorized

Compression default settings

If you are loading a data warehouse or similar environment where your default approach would probably be to compress all

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April 24, 2019 Uncategorized

Take care with automatic indexes

This one came in via an AskTOM question. You need to be careful when disabling constraints that are underpinned by

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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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June 2, 2017 Uncategorized

Index compression–quick tip

If you’re appropriately licensed and want to use advanced index compression, you can take advantage of the setting a tablespace

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April 14, 2017 Uncategorized

Sharing a tablespace between 2 databases

I was reading an interesting discussion today about multiple databases each containing large amounts of read-only data.  If that read-only

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May 25, 2015 Uncategorized

Datapump TTS quick tip

I was trying to transport a large number of tablespace datafiles from one database to another, and impdp kept crashing

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May 2, 2015 Uncategorized

dropping tablespaces and queues – not happy companions

grrr… SQL> drop tablespace MY_TSPACE including contents; drop tablespace MY_TSPACE including contents * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred

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January 13, 2015 Uncategorized

Inappropriate behaviour

You pick up little funny things in the day to day with Oracle. Like this one when you try to

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