Oracle Indexes

Just a short note to say that DOAG have now a registration page for my upcoming “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar running in Berlin, Germany on 8-9 May 2019. For all the details regarding this acclaimed educational experience and how to book your place, please visit: https://www.doag.org/de/eventdetails?tx_doagevents_single[id]=577320 Please mention you heard this seminar […]

As I was compiling my new “Oracle Diagnostics and Performance Tuning” seminar, I realised there were quite a number of indexing performance issues I haven’t discussed here previously. The following is a classic example of what difference a Unique Index can have over a Non-Unique index, while also covering the classic myth that Oracle sometimes […]

I’m very excited to announce I’ll be running my highly acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar in conjunction with the German Oracle User Group (DOAG) in Berlin, Germany on 8-9 May 2019. The venue will be the DOAG Offices in Berlin (DOAG Office, 6th Floor, Tempelhofer Weg 64, 12347 Berlin). Because of venue […]

I’m very excited to announce I’ll be running my highly acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” seminar in conjunction with the German Oracle User Group (DOAG) in Berlin, Germany on 8-9 May 2019. The venue will be the DOAG Offices in Berlin (DOAG Office, 6th Floor, Tempelhofer Weg 64, 12347 Berlin). Because of venue […]

Very excited to announce some new “Let’s Talk Database” events scheduled for February 2019 in various locations in Australia/NZ: Canberra: Wednesday, 20 February 2019: Registration Link Sydney: Thursday, 21 Feburary 2019: Registration Link Brisbane: Friday, 22 Feburary 2019: Registration Link Melbourne: Wednesday, 27 February 2019: Registration Link Wellington: Friday, 1 March 2019: Registration Link   […]

I was recently very honoured and flattered to have received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” Speaker Award from the UKOUG. I have only managed to get to the excellent UKOUG Tech conferences on a couple of occasions, so it was both a thrill and a surprise to be so honoured. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make […]

  I was very flattered and honoured to be named one of the first 4 “Oracle Masters” by the Australian Oracle User Group at the recent AUSOUG Connect 2018 conference in Melbourne. Thank you to all the AUSOUG members involved for this award. As always, it’s a pleasure to help fellow Oracle Database professionals in […]

  After initially not being in a position to make it this year, I will now be presenting at the AUSOUG Connect 2018 Conference in Melbourne this coming Wednesday, 21 November 2018. My presentation will be: “12c Release 2 and 18c – New Indexing Related Features” Oracle Database 12.2 and 18.3 releases have introduced a number […]

By default, Oracle doesn’t index an entry if all columns within the index are NULL. However, (as I’ve blogged previously), it’s possible to index all possible NULL values by simply adding a constant value to the index column list. Importantly, the CBO knows when a column has all it’s NULL values indexed and can potentially […]

I’m very excited to announce two new Webinar events for my acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” training event, running in March 2019 !! For details of all the extensive content covered in the webinars, please visit my Indexing Seminar page. The webinars will run for 4 hours each day, spanning a full week period (Monday […]