Using DBMS_DEBUG in SQL Developer
Do you need to debug PL/SQL units in SQL Developer? You can’t get it to work because someone refuses to open TCP ports between your database and your client? No problem. You can still configure the good old DBMS_DEBUG in your SQL Developer. I know…
Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part II
In my previous post I shared some findings on migrating user and application data between platforms with different endianness, focusing on problems with reducing downtime. Today I’ll talk more about the complexity of chosen method. It’s not only about complexity per se, it’s rather about…
Cross-endian Oracle migration – moving user data – part I
One can find a lot of sources and materials regarding migrating Oracle databases between platforms having different endianness, even though the choice of possible methods is limited in this case. On paper (slides?) everything looks fine, but then you hit bugs or environment-specific problems. Moreover,…
20 Years Working for Trivadis
Today, it is exactly twenty years ago since I started my job as a consultant for Trivadis. In 1999, I never thought that I will stay in one company for such a long time. A retrospective of the last two decades. On 1st March 1999, a…
Materialized View Refresh for Dummies
Materialized Views are often used in data warehouses to improve query performance on aggregated data. But what if it takes too long to refresh the materialized views? Here are some basic rules to improve refresh performance. Unlike indexes, materialized views are not automatically updated with…
MemOptimized RowStore in Oracle Database 19c
Since February, 13 2019 Oracle Database 19c is available. I blogged about this feature here and here. Time for an update. So, what’s new in 19c regarding the MemOptimized Rowstore? Fast Lookup Works with JDBC Thin Driver I listed 16 prerequisites for the MemOptimized Rowstore in this…
Troubleshooting Oracle session disconnection slowness
I have been recently asked to investigate very interesting issue. In short: AIX 7.1 with Oracle 12.1.0.2. Connect with SQL*Plus from hostX to databaseA running on hostZ, then disconnect – was hanging for around 75 seconds. Connect with SQL*Plus from hostY to databaseA running on…
Issue with the Hint ENABLE_PARALLEL_DML
Performing an ETL with large data sets, it is often a good idea to run DML in parallel. But, in contrast to parallel query or DDL, parallel DML have to be explicitly enabled. You had to issue ALTER SESSION ENABLE PARALLEL DML in the past….
Dynamic Pivot with Polymorphic Table Function?
LiveSQL is great place to start playing with new features. It provides a couple of very helpful demo scripts explaining how polymorphic table functions work. There I found a new script few days ago which uses PTF for dynamic pivot! WOW! According to my subjective…
Polymorphic Table Functions (PTF), Part 4 – Table Semantic PTF
In the first three parts of the series we have seen how a PTF basically works, but we have focused on row-semantic PTF only. In this part we’ll look at the table semantic PTF. As a reminder, the main difference to row-semantic PTF is that…
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