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By Franck Pachot . I’ll present here 3 ways to run a query for each result of another query. Let’s take an exemple: get all executions plan (select from dbms_xplan.display_cursor) for each of my queries (identified from v$sql). The 90’s way was to run the first query, which generates the second queries into a spool file, and execute that file.…
By Franck Pachot . If we don’t mind about loosing our changes, then can we disable logging for DML? This is a question I’ve heard a lot. Ok, you don’t need to recover your changes but Oracle may want to recover the consistency of its datafiles anyway. And that’s why datafiles blocks changed though the buffer cache always generate redo.…
By Franck Pachot . Did you ever use the COPY command in sqlplus? It’s very old, and documentation says : The COPY command is not being enhanced to handle datatypes or features introduced with, or after Oracle8i. The COPY command is likely to be deprecated in a future release. Deprecated? But it is back, with a new name, in the…
By Franck Pachot . How to migrate from non-CDB to CDB? Of course all known migration methods works. But there is also another solution: upgrade to 12c if necessary and then convert the non-CDB to a PDB. This is done with the noncdb_to_pdb.sql which converts a non-CDB dictionary to a PDB one, with metadata and object links. But do you…
By Franck Pachot . During our Oracle 12c New Features workshop I had a very good question about whether the session statistics are reset or not when doing ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER. My initial thought was that they were not reset because it’s the same session (same SID and SERIAL#). But when I’m not 100% sure about something, I test…
By Franck Pachot . 12c came with a very nice feature: privilege analysis. You don’t know which privileges are required? then just grant DBA, run your application, and check which minimal privileges are needed. And today, I’ve discovered how it is very powerful: you can even see privileges used internally, even when not done by SQL, and even not documented.…
By Franck Pachot . When you have sessions blocked on locks, you probably have all information about the waiters (they call you and anyway their waiting session is visible in v$session our ASH). But you usually need to get enough information that help to identify the blocker. Here is a query I use to get that quickly, based on V$WAIT_CHAINS…
By Franck Pachot . SQL plan Directives have been introduced in 12c. If you have scripts that check their states (and I have that as I prefer to monitor closely the features that are new) you probably have seen a difference when going from 12.1.0.1 – the first release of 12c and the only one avilable yet in Standard Edition…
By Franck Pachot . What is the most important part in an execution plan? It’s probably the predicate section. It helps to see implicit conversions. It helps to understand why an index is used or not. Or to see additional predicates coming from constraints. When you get an execution plan from shared pool, the dbms_xplan.display_cursor() shows the predicates. But when…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve blogged about multitenant internals at the time when 12.1.0.1 was just released. Something has changed in 12.1.0.2 and blogging about it was in my todo list for a long time. Now the occasion to do it has been triggered by a question on Oracle Forums about CDB_DATA_FILES not showing PDB$SEED datafiles because there is an…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous blog I’v shared my script to retrieve the OPT_ESTIMATE hints from a SQL Profile. In the example I made, I had two lines for each table: — PROFILE HINTS from dbiInSite (1) statement 4fz1vtn0w8aak: /*+ OPT_ESTIMATE(@”SEL$2CBA5DDD”, TABLE, “EMPLOYEES”@”SEL$1″, SCALE_ROWS=2) OPT_ESTIMATE(@”SEL$58A6D7F6”, TABLE, “EMPLOYEES”@”SEL$1″, SCALE_ROWS=2) OPT_ESTIMATE(@”SEL$6AE97DF7”, TABLE, “DEPARTMENTS”@”SEL$1″, SCALE_ROWS=5.185185185) OPT_ESTIMATE(@”SEL$58A6D7F6”, TABLE, “DEPARTMENTS”@”SEL$1”, SCALE_ROWS=5.185185185) */ The…
By Franck Pachot . People often ask me if I use the SQL Tuning Advisor. The answer is no, at least not through the end of it. But don’t take me wrong. SQL Tuning Advisor is a really nice feature. If you like the CBO then you must love the Tuning Advisor, because it is just the CBO with more…
