Oracle CPU / PSU Advisory July 2019
Recently, just in the middle of the summer holidays, Oracle has released the third Critical Patch Advisory for its products. It seems there’s a lot of work going on in Redwood Shore. Oracle has fixed about 319 security vulnerabilities across their products. The Oracle database…
Oracle CPU / PSU Advisory July 2019
Recently, just in the middle of the summer holidays, Oracle has released the third Critical Patch Advisory for its products. It seems there’s a lot of work going on in Redwood Shore. Oracle has fixed about 319 security vulnerabilities across their products. The Oracle database…
Oracle CPU / PSU Advisory July 2019
Recently, just in the middle of the summer holidays, Oracle has released the third Critical Patch Advisory for its products. It seems there’s a lot of work going on in Redwood Shore. Oracle has fixed about 319 security vulnerabilities across their products. The Oracle database…
MIN/MAX Optimization and Asynchronous Global Index Maintenance
In this short post I would like to point out a non-obvious issue that one of my customers recently hit. On the one hand, it’s a typical case where the query optimizer generates a different (suboptimal) execution plan even though nothing relevant (of course, at…
V$SQL_CS_HISTOGRAMS: What Are the Buckets’ Thresholds?
The contents of the V$SQL_CS_HISTOGRAM view is used by the SQL engine to decide when a cursor is made bind aware, and therefore, when it should use adaptive cursor sharing. For each child cursor, the view shows three buckets. It is of general knowledge that…
Oracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement July 2018
Today Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the July 2018 Critical Patch Update. It’s quite a heavy update with not less than 334 security vulnerability fixes across the Oracle products. The Oracle database is relatively prominently represented with 3 security vulnerabilities and a maximal…
Oracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement July 2018
Today Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the July 2018 Critical Patch Update. It’s quite a heavy update with not less than 334 security vulnerability fixes across the Oracle products. The Oracle database is relatively prominently represented with 3 security vulnerabilities and a maximal…