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Oracle Data Guard RedoRoutes : What is Priority 8 ?

By Mouhamadou Diaw When dealing with cascading or far sync in a Data Guard environment, it is important to understand how to configure the RedoRoutes property. By default, a primary database sends redo to each transport destination that is(…)

Oracle Autonomous Linux: cron’d ksplice and yum updates

By Franck Pachot . Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is a Linux distribution which is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). However, unlike RHEL, OEL is open source, free to download, free to use, free to distribute, free(…)

Oracle GoldenGate 19c: Cannot register Integrated EXTRACT due to ORA-44004

The global_name in an oracle database has a direct impact on the Golden Gate Extract process registration we need to do when we create an Integrated Extract. In my example below, I use Oracle GoldenGate MicroServices architecture but the same(…)

The Oracle ACE program ♠ what it is not ♠

By Franck Pachot . I had a few questions about the Oracle ACE program recently and I thought about putting some answers there. Of course, that’s only my point of view, there’s an official web page:(…)

Oracle non-linguistic varchar2 columns to order by without sorting

By Franck Pachot . Sorting data is an expensive operation and many queries declare an ORDER BY. To avoid the sort operation you can build an index as it maintains a sorted structure. This helps with Top-N queries as(…)

Oracle 12c – global partial index

By Franck Pachot . We have an incredible number of possibilities with Oracle. Yes, an index can be global (indexing many partitions without having to be partitioned itself on the same key) and partial (skipping some of the table(…)

Oracle 12c – reorg and split table with clustering

By Franck Pachot . In this series of small examples on recent features, I have imported in a previous post, the statistics of covid-19 per day and per countries. This is typical of data that(…)

Oracle 12c – peak detection with MATCH_RECOGNIZE

By Franck Pachot . This post is part of a series of small examples of recent features. I’m running this in the Oracle 20c preview in the Oracle Cloud. I’ll show a very basic example of “Row Pattern Recognition”(…)

Oracle 12c – pre-built join index

By Franck Pachot . This post is part of a series of small examples of recent features. I’m running this in the Oracle 20c preview in the Oracle Cloud. I have created a few tables in the(…)

What is a serverless database?

By Franck Pachot . After reading the https://cloudwars.co/oracle/oracle-deal-8×8-larry-ellison-picks-amazons-pocket-again/ paper, I am writing some thoughts about how a database can be serverless and elastic. Of course, a database needs a server to process its data. Serverless(…)