June 2020

When I go to a customer site to resolve performance issues, one of the most common issues I encounter is in relation to inefficient SQL. And one of the most common causes for inefficient SQL I encounter is because of deficiencies the default manner by which the index Clustering Factor is calculated. When it comes […]

A question arrived in my email a few days ago with the following observations on a statement that was supposed to query the data dictionary for some information about a specified composite partitioned table. The query was wrapped in a little PL/SQL, similar to the following:

This post cycles back too some other historical posts of mine related to max_string_size and the fact that the data dictionary uses LONG data type columns because of historical reasons related to backward compatibility. Most of us probably have existing databases that have gone through the standard upgrade through various versions of the Oracle Database, and as such, all of our existing database have a max_string_size of STANDARD. Thus to convert to the larger string size, we start by setting max_string_size to EXTENDED, run the appropriate scripts after shutting out database down and re-opening it in upgrade mode, setting the appropriate initialization parameters for the instance in our SPFILE. But what if you are creating a new database?

By Franck Pachot

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I originally wrote this as a comment on the following post that you may find on internet:
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oracle-to-postgresql-reasons-to-migrate/
but my comment was not published (many links in it… I suppose it has been flagged as spam?) so I put it there.

You should never take any decision on what you read on the internet without verifying. It is totally valid to consider a move to Open Source databases, but doing it without good understanding is a risk for your migration project success.