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November 2020

Vagrant & Docker Builds : ORDS and SQLcl 20.3

Submitted by oraclebase on Thu, 2020-11-05 09:41

In a previous post I discussed the recent release of APEX 20.2 and the subsequent builds it triggered. Last night I pulled down ORDS 20.3 and SQLcl 20.3, so I updated my Vagrant and Docker builds again.

Updating my APEX 20.2 installation

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Thu, 2020-11-05 03:49

One of (or should I say “another of”!) the very cool features of Application Express (APEX) is that by being a database-centric software installation, patching of the product can be done very efficiently and easily by simply loading fresh versions of the underlying PL/SQL source.

The reason loading PL/SQL source is such a good thing is that when you load PL/SQL source that is unchanged the database can simply treat that as a “no-op” which

  • makes loading the unchanged PL/SQL faster,
  • avoids invalidation and recompilation impacts

We can see that with this simple demo.

What’s new with Oracle database 12.2.0.1.200714 versus 12.2.0.1.201020

Submitted by fritshoogland on Wed, 2020-11-04 20:51

This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 12.2.0.1 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives them the ability to assess if the PSU impacts anything.

Functions

NoSQL and SQL: key-value access always scale

Submitted by Franck Pachot on Wed, 2020-11-04 18:40

By Franck Pachot

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I have written about some NoSQL myths in previous posts ( and here) and I got some feedback from people mentioning that the test case was on relatively small data. This is true. In order to understand how it works, we need to explain and trace the execution, and that is easier on a small test case. Once the algorithm is understood it is easy to infer how it scales. Then, if readers want to test it on huge data, they can. This may require lot of cloud credits, and I usually don’t feel the need to do this test for a blog post, especially when I include all the code to reproduce it on a larger scale.

FBI or Virtual

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Tue, 2020-11-03 10:56

This note has has been sitting with the other 800 drafts since some time in May 2019, and started with a comment about following on from “a recent talk on how to engineer indexes properly”. Unfortunately I don’t remember when I wrote it, or why it came about.I mention this only because the note shows you how you can run into irritating limitations when you’re trying to do things properly.

First, a little script to generate some highly skewed data:

What’s new with Oracle database 18.11 versus 18.12

Submitted by fritshoogland on Mon, 2020-11-02 21:19

This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 18 RU 11 (july 2020) and RU 12 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives them the ability to assess if the RU impacts anything.

Functions

Video : DBMS_JOB Jobs Converted to DBMS_SCHEDULER Jobs in Oracle Database 19c Onward

Submitted by oraclebase on Mon, 2020-11-02 08:25

In today’s video we discuss a change to the old DBMS_JOB scheduler from 19c onward.

This video is based on the following article.

You may find these useful as well.

Math and SQL: Two of my favourite things

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Mon, 2020-11-02 03:47

There has always been a special place in heart for the Fibonacci sequence. Decades ago in high school when comparing the ratio of successive items, as any naive student would, I thought I had stumbled upon some wonderful discovery that would assure my place in the pantheon of mathematical greats. Of course, it was somewhat disheartening to have my teacher subsequently crush that illusion when he threw me a reference book demonstrating my discovery had been well established just a mere 400 years earlier Smile