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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 Cloud basics for beginners

Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is(…)

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(…)

No{Join,GroupBy}SQL – Analytic Views for BI

By Franck Pachot . Advocates of NoSQL can query their structures without having to read a data model first. And without writing long table join clauses. They store and query a hierarchical structure without the need to follow relationships,(…)

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(…)

AWS – RDS – SQL Server Native backups

Introduction RDS provide automatic backup feature. This feature will backup the entire RDS instance. As a DBA sometimes you need to backup individual database, they are many reason for that (legal, migration, replication,…). Unfortunately individual database backups are not available(…)