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By Franck Pachot . In the previous post about the Autonomous Data Warehouse Service, I’ve run queries though the Machine Learning Notebooks. But you obviously want to connect to it from your premises, with SQL*Net. Of course the connection, going through the public internet, must be secured. If you already use a managed service like the Oracle Exadata Express Cloud…
By Franck Pachot . You like SQL Developer because it is easy to install (just unzip a jar) and has a lot of features? Me too. It can be even easier if it is provided as a web application: no installation, and no java to take all my laptop RAM… When I say no installation, you will see that you…
By Franck Pachot . This is not a ‘best practice’ but just some ideas about building Docker images to provide an Oracle Database. I started with the images provided by Oracle: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDatabase/SingleInstance and this is great to validate the docker environment. Then I customized for my needs and here are the different points about this customization. Do not send a…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog posts I explained how to create, and stop/start the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service. And I didn’t show yet how to connect to it. It is easy, from sqlplus or SQL Developer, or SQLcl. But there’s something more exciting to run some SQL queries: the Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks based on Apache…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous post, I’ve explained how to start and stop the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service from PSM (PaaS Service Manager). There’s a setup phase, and a run phase starting with service-start and ending with service-stop. And the setup is specific to an Oracle Cloud account, storing information in the local user home. You may…
By Franck Pachot . In the previous post, I explained how to create an Autonomous Data Warehouse with PSM (PaaS Service Manager Command Line Interface). The most common operation you want to do with it is starting and stopping the service. This is the best way to save credits for hourly billed services. And PSM is the easiest: run from…
By Franck Pachot . You want to try the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service? That’s easy. Here is a Step-by-Step. Cloud Credits First, you need Cloud Credits. You may have bought them (any recent negotiation with Oracle Sales, even for on-premises, involves some Cloud Credits). You can have a free trial with 300$ Cloud Credits available for 1 month. To…
By Franck Pachot . A covering index is an index that contains all the columns required by your query, so that you don’t have to do a TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID, which is the major cost of an index range scan. You don’t need any special feature to do that in Oracle. Just add the required columns at the…
Dbvisit Standby version 8 comes with a nice feature, a daemon, which gives the benefit to send and apply the archive log automatically in the background. Bypassing the system scheduling, the daemon will facilitate customer RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) fine tuning. Monitoring to apply logs to the Standby only when needed, will also optimize use…
By Franck Pachot . At each new Oracle version, I like to check what’s new, not only from the documentation, but also from exposed internals. I look (and sometimes diff) on catalog views definitions, undocumented parameters, and even the new C functions in the libraries. At last Oak Table World, I was intrigued by this V$SQLFN_METADATA view explained by Vit…
During tuning or normal DBA activities one of the most annoying things is sqlplus with its default column output when running queries. I.e. even after setting a linesize of 1000 and a pagesize of 1000 the output may look as follows in your preferred terminal emulation (putty here): Most people address this by using other tools like sqldeveloper (or sqlcl…
By Franck Pachot . I see increasing demand to build a Docker image for the Oracle Database. But the installation process for Oracle does not really fit the Docker way to install by layers: you need to unzip the distribution, install from it to the Oracle Home, remove the things that are not needed, strop the binaries,… Before addressing those…
