Oracle Indexes

As a Christmas present to those in the UK looking at attending my “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar in February next year, the Early Bird rates are now available until 19th January 2018. Take this opportunity to attend this highly acclaimed seminar that is packed full of information designed to significantly improve the […]

UPDATE: ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE !! Attention Oracle Professionals in the United Kingdom !! I have now finalised all the dates and venues for a series of my popular and critically acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar I’ll be running in the UK in February 2018. I’m extremely excited as […]

Firstly, a huge thank-you to everyone who has enroled in one of my “Indexing Internals and Best Practices” Seminars running soon is Australia. The feedback and overall reaction has been extremely positive and I can’t wait to present all the material I’ve been putting together these past few weeks. There are currently limited places still […]

I’m currently hard at work fully revising and updating my “Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar in time for a series of events I’ll be running in Australia in October/November. This has been a highly popular and acclaimed 2 day seminar that is a must for any DBA, Developer, Solutions Architect or anyone else interested […]

I’ll be running a fully revised and updated version of my acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar throughout Australia in Oct/Nov 2017. Previous versions of this seminar have been hugely popular and run in some 18 countries. This updated version will feature lots of new material including 12c related indexing capabilities and recommendations. […]

Today is the official launch of Richard Foote Consulting, my new independent company in which I’ll be providing specialist Oracle Database consulting and training services, focusing on database performance tuning, database problem resolutions and database health check assessments (at least until everyone moves across to the new self-tuning Oracle Cloud database). Based on all the […]

I’ve discussed Index Compression a number of times as it’s an excellent way of minimizing the size of indexes without unnecessary, expensive index rebuilds. One of the nice features of Advanced Index Compression is that not only does it potentially compress indexes more effectively than possible with Basic Index Compression, but that it also eliminates […]

Although I usually focus on index related topics, I’ve always kinda considered Materialized Views (MVs) as an index like structure, which Oracle can automatically update and from which Oracle can efficiently retrieve data. The cost of maintaining a Materialized View Log is not unlike the cost of maintaining an index structure, the benefits of which […]

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 […]