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May 2017

New workshop "Exadata For Developers"

Submitted by randolf.geist on Wed, 2017-05-31 20:00

Just a short note that I've developed a new two day course that covers all relevant features that a database application developer should know when dealing with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine platform.

It covers in detail Smart Scans, the Exadata Flash Cache, Hybrid Columnar Compression and all surrounding features like Storage Indexes, (serial) direct path reads etc. etc.. Of course it also includes features that were added in 12c, like Attribute Clustering and Zone Maps.

All features are presented with live demo scripts, and there will be enough time to discuss your specific questions and analyse existing applications if desired.

For more information and details, check the corresponding pages:

German: Exadata für Anwendungsentwickler

OTN Yathra 2017

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Tue, 2017-05-30 10:42

The amazing 6 city set of events is just around the corner, with all of the dates and details available at http://otnyathra.in/

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Here are my thoughts on why you should be attending

New release model for JUL17 (or Oracle 17.3): RU and RUR

Submitted by Franck Pachot on Tue, 2017-05-30 09:58

Updated June 5th

When reading about new version numbering in SQL Developer, I took the risk to change the title and guess the future version number for Oracle Database: Oracle 17.3 for the July (Q3) of 2017. Of course, this is just a guess.

Updated June 10th

Confirming the previous guess, we start to see some bugs planned to be fixed in version 18.1 which is probably the January 2018 Release Update.
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Instrumentation … not just for debugging

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Tue, 2017-05-30 07:18

Yeah I know.  You’re probably thinking “Here’s another blog post from someone telling us how important it is to instrument our code, so we can get better debugging, better performance, blah blah blah”.

12.2 Index Deferred Invalidation (Atomica)

Submitted by Richard Foote on Tue, 2017-05-30 01:14

One of the useful little features quietly introduced with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is the ability to now defer the invalidation of dependent SQL cursors when an index is created or modified. This can be useful when you say create a new index which you know will have no impact on any existing SQL […]

Oracle 12cR2: exchange partition deferred invalidation

Submitted by Franck Pachot on Mon, 2017-05-29 19:36

In a previous post I introduced the new 12cR2 feature where some DDL operations can use the same rolling invalidation than what is done with dbms_stats. On tables, DDL deferred invalidation is available only for operations on partitions. Here is how it works for partition exchange.

Here is my session environment:

SQL> whenever sqlerror exit failure
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='hh24:mi:ss';
Session altered.
SQL> alter session set session_cached_cursors=0;
Session altered.
SQL> alter session set optimizer_dynamic_sampling=0;
Session altered.
SQL> alter system set "_optimizer_invalidation_period"=5;
System SET altered.
SQL> show user
USER is "DEMO"

Which privilege for CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE from DB LINK?

Submitted by Franck Pachot on Mon, 2017-05-29 18:59

When cloning a PDB from a remote CDB you need to define a database link to be used in the CREATE PLUGGABLE DATABASE … FROM …@… command. The documentation is not completely clear about the privileges required on the source for the user defined in the database link, so here are the different possibilities.

Remote clone

Here is what the documentation says:CapturePDBPrivsClone

So you can connect to the CDB or to the PDB.

How to recover a dropped package from archivelogs – based on research for VOODOO engine

Submitted by Kamil Stawiarski on Sun, 2017-05-28 10:32

Sorry for long time without post, but we are writing with Marcin Rydz a new heterogenous replication product based on archivelogs and it’s consuming a looooooot of our time </p /> </p></div> <div class=

How to recover a dropped package from archivelogs – based on research for VOODOO engine

Submitted by oakroot on Sun, 2017-05-28 10:32

Sorry for long time without post, but we are writing with Marcin Rydz a new heterogenous replication product based on archivelogs and it’s consuming a looooooot of our time </p /> </p></div> <div class=

Quick and dirty Pathfinder (or SQLT XPLORE)

Submitted by mauro.pagano on Sun, 2017-05-28 10:10

The other day I was working on a SQL with an odd plan (JPPD with pushed predicate not on the driver table inside the view) when as a test I flipped OFE back one version and got the plan I was expecting, this is (one of) the typical use case(s) for Pathfinder or SQLT XPLORE.

I didn’t have a reproducible testcase and while creating it is always a good thing (IMHO), I was working in a lower environment that gave me a degree of freedom in testing things. I knew exactly which release to go from (12.1.0.1 -> 12.1.0.2) so I wrote a few lines of PL/SQL to implement a smaller Pathfinder. The idea was to let it run while I was working on a testcase to emulate the problem (and maybe run full blown Pathfinder on it).