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Ayant rencontré récemment des problèmes de blocs corrompus sur des bases Oracle en version Oracle 10g et Oracle 11g, des différences notables sont apparues notamment au niveau de la vue v$database_block_corruption. Je vous livre dans ce post le résultat de mes tests.
My colleague Hervé Schweitzer reported a very interesting issue to me. It is about the usage of Grid Control 11g while monitoring the available space on an Oracle database – in our case a 10.2.0.3 target database. This post continues my last post about the free space management in a tablespace in relation to the recycle bin management.
Last week at a customer, I used DBUA to upgrade an Oracle database from 10g to 11g and the migration ran successfully. However, the day after I got a monitoring message that the diag directory is growing very rapidly.
Aprés le post sur « Utilisons les securefile », revenons sur le sujet LOB avec une approche performance, stockage. Nous rencontrons parfois des modèles de données étranges, nous aurions envie en tant que DBA de tout reprendre à zéro pour refaire un modele relationnel en 3eme forme normale (3NF), plus efficace et mieux conçu dans notre « RDBMS » favori, mais la réalité étant ce qu'elle est nous devons faire avec, et au mieux. De plus Oracle n'est pas qu'une base de données relationnelle :-) on l'oublie trop souvent.
Last week, I was not able to complete a backup because of the ORA-19566 error: "exceeded limit of 0 corrupt blocks". Here is what you can do to fix it.
Sometimes, you need to modify the statistics of a table. There are various reasons: either for the performance analysis or because the execution plan changed. Oracle offers two methods: statistics restore or statistics export. Both are in the dbms_stats package.
Are you often trying to find functionalities or error codes in Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2, 11gR2, or MySQL documentation? Of course, each time you are looking for this documentation you are finding unofficial documentation which is never corresponding to the version you are looking for...
Index compression comes from Oracle 8i and has quite the same mechanism as table compression. Index compression eliminates duplicate column values in the leaf blocks. Let's see how it works:
What is finally the primary objective of a database? Storing Data 
The question is, how Oracle makes it. For many beginners, a confusing topic is to get the picture between physical storage and logical one. So how does it work?
Quelles sont les faiblesses de l'encryption des mots de passe Oracle ? Comment est-ce qu'Oracle crée les clés de hachage afin d'en améliorer la sécurité ? C'est ce que je vous propose de découvrir dans ce post.



Hi Arnaud,
Can I hav english version of these document.
Rgds
Raffi
Merci José pour l'astuce. J'ai pu valider "chopt", c'est pratique.