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AWR Formatter: plug-in Google Chrome pour rapports AWR

Chacun d’entre nous à une façon bien différente d’appréhender le rapport AWR (Oracle Automatic Workload Repository). Nous utilisons nos propres processus de lecture et notre propre appoche. Dans ce blog je vous propose de découvrir AWR Formatter, un outil qui(…)

Oracle TNS_ADMIN issues due to bad environment settings

Recently, I faced a TNS resolution problem at a customer. The reason was a bad environment setting: The customer called the service desk because of a DBLINK pointing to a bad database. The users were supposed to be redirected to a(…)

Oracle 12c Adaptive Plan & inflection point

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle 12c Adaptive Plan feature was already presented by Nicolas Jardot in OOW 2013: Solving customer issues with the 12c Optimizer. I recently had to answer several questions about its behavior at execution(…)

Best practice for the sending of an Oracle execution plan

By Franck Pachot . You have a query that takes too long and you want help to analyze the execution plan? Then you need to get it with relevant information, and correctly formatted. Autotrace is not a good option(…)

The consequences of NOLOGGING in Oracle

By Franck Pachot . While answering to a question on Oracle forum about NOLOGGING consequences, I provided a test case that deserves a bit more explanation. Nologging operations are good to generate minimal redo on bulk operations (direct-path(…)

Investigating Oracle lock issues with event 10704

By Franck Pachot . Did you ever encounter unexplained Oracle lock issues? They may be coming from unindexed foreign keys (which is worse in 11g). It’s not easy to monitor. Of course you can check Oracle locks from V$LOCKED_OBJECT, but(…)

Troubleshooting: ORA-29283 when oracle is member of a group with read/write privileges

Recently, I worked on an Oracle database migration for a customer and I faced a strange behavior when accessing a file stored on the file system of the Oracle database. The database has been migrated on a new server, and(…)

Oracle 12c In-Memory option: waiting for 12.1.0.2

By Franck Pachot . Oracle has announced a big feature that should come in the next 12c patch set: the In-Memory option. It will soon be in beta version, so nothing will be published about it until it(…)

Oracle Partitioned Sequences – a future new feature in 12c?

By Franck Pachot . Disclaimer: I'll talk about an undocumented feature that appeared in Oracle 12c - undocumented except if you consider that being exposed in DBA_SEQUENCES as the PARTITION_COUNT is a kind of documentation. So, as the syntax is(…)

Oracle et Dbvisit Replicate pour migrer sans arrêt de service… et sans stress

By Franck Pachot . Je viens d’assister au Webinar Zero Downtime Migration pour Oracle, présenté par Chris Lawless qui est récemment passé de Product Manager Golden Gate à Product Manager Dbvisit.  Je vais détailler ici un point très(…)