There isn’t a documented method of controlling which specific predicate to push.; it appears that the decision is left to the cost-based optimizer. However there is an undocumented method. Both the PUSH_PRED and NO_PUSH_PRED hints accept an optional second parameter(read more)
Carlos Sierra spent 17 years in the SQL performance group of Oracle Support. He couldn’t move a mountain nor pull down a big oak tree. But Carlos Sierra became a mighty big man by putting all the knowledge he gained during that time into a wonderful tool called “SQLT.”(read more)
Someone recently gave me an insight with which you would probably agree with: If query performance is satisfactory before and after the upgrade, then business users are unlikely to complain if new optimizer features are not being used after the upgrade.(read more)
Container Databases have been an area that I have researched intensively over the past years. With this post (and hopefully some others that follow) I would like to demonstrate some of the new situations the DBA might be confronted with. Please don’t use this post to give the new 12c architecture a hard time: standardised deployments (which I love) help you a lot. Not only do your DBA scripts work reliably everywhere, but the error condition I am showing in this post should be a lot less likely.
At the end of the post I’ll show an alternative approach using a standardised way of creating PDBs.
Environment
Setting the scene, my environment is as follows:
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A new version 4.23 of the XPLAN_ASH utility is available for download.
As usual the latest version can be downloaded here.
This version comes only with minor changes, see the change log below.
Here are the notes from the change log:
- Finally corrected the very old and wrong description of "wait times" in the script comments, where it was talking about "in-flight" wait events but that is not correct. ASH performs a "fix-up" of the last 255 samples or so and updates them with the time waited, so these wait events are not "in-flight"
- Removed some of the clean up code added in 4.22 to the beginning of the script, because it doesn't really help much but spooled script output always contained these error messages about non-existent column definitions being cleared
By popular demand (well, one person emailed me to ask for it) I’m going to publish the source code for a little demo I’ve been giving since the beginning of the millennium – it concerns indexes and the potential side effects that you can get when you drop an index that you’re “not using”. I think I’ve mentioned the effect several times in the history of this blog, but I can’t find an explicit piece of demo code, so here it is – starting at the conclusion – as a cut and paste from an SQL*Plus session running against an 11g instance:
One of the nifty things in 12c is the ability to pick up DBMS_OUTPUT output from your scheduler jobs. So if you haven’t built an extensive instrumentation or logging facility, you’ll still have some details you can pick up from the scheduler dictionary views.
I’ve been going through some SERIOUS training in just over a week.
June 24, 2016 I have been working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system platform for a bit over 16 years. Through various methods of observation, including the use of 10046 extended Oracle SQL traces, Process Monitor traces, Wireshark traces, and just general observation of the various components of the ERP system, I noticed a […]
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