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In my last blog post about SQL Server 2016 Always Encrypted, here, I showed how to use this new functionality but also that you have to separate the different execution context with an Application server, a database server and a security server to avoid that certificate will be available for all users and break the segregation. Let’s see how to…
For every client we do projects for there usually are database systems from various vendors. In most places you at least find some Oracle and MS SQL Server databases. Probably somewhere there are even some MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL instance running. The Oracle and MS SQL Server stuff almost always is there because vendors require it. For MySQL/MariaDB the common use…
By Franck Pachot . When you don’t have Enterprise Edition + Diagnostic Pack, you cannot use AWR but you can, and should, install Statspack. Statspack is still there, but unfortunately do not evolve a lot. The most important section, the ‘Top 5 Timed Events’ shows only foreground events, or is supposed to do so. When a user process waits on…
For our event SQL Server 2016 in September, I am studying the new functionality Query Store. My colleague David Barbarin have written few months ago about Query Store and how it’s working. Simple SELECT Query To begin, I execute a simple SELECT on a table with 3 different methods: SELECT * FROM QS_test; exec sp_executesql N’SELECT * FROM QS_test’ EXEC…
Some Trace Flag like T1117 and T1118 are no more needed as you can read on David’s blog. But that’s not all, you have also the T4199… What’ does the Trace Flag T4199? This Trace Flag enables all query optimizer fixes. A lot of DBAs have enabled this Trace Flag globally during the build of a new server. If you…
Last Friday the Swiss PGDAY happened in Rapperswil. All the slides as well as some pictures are now availble (tab “Programm”): >
By Mouhamadou Diaw In a precedent blog (http://dbi-services.com/blog/discovering-shareplex-for-oracle/) about SharePlex, we presented how to setup a replication between 2 environments. In this article we will try to see how SharePlex deals with replicating DDL statements. Before starting we present below our environment and our configuration file. We are just replicating scott_atlas to scott_atlasrep2. We suppose that SharePlex is already configured. Server Name…
One of the top new features of SQL Server 2016 is the Always Encrypted functionality. Always Encrypted provides that data, store in a database, remains encrypted the all times there are in the database. There is a complete separation between persons who own the data and person who manage it. Only persons who own the data can see plain text…
By Franck Pachot . Let’s look at Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1) 12.2.0.1 is planned for 2HCY2016 on platforms Linux x86-64, Oracle Solaris SPARC (64-bit), Oracle Solaris x86-64 (64-bit). 2HCY2016 starts next week but we can imagine that it will not be released immediately and anyway we will have to wait a few months to download…
By Franck Pachot . After the announcement of the death of SE1 and SE we wondered what Oracle will do for Small and Medium Enterprises and entry level products. The answer was postgres the Oracle Cloud Services, but that’s for dev/test only because Public Cloud is not for production and SME will not build a Private Cloud for their few…
By Franck Pachot . I encountered recently an issue with Adaptive Plan and SPM. Documentations says that it works perfectly together but I remembered a presentation from Nelson Calero at UKOUG TECH15 mentioning strange behavior. I reproduced the issue and share the test case here as you may encounter it in 12.1 leading to regressions when you capture SQL Plan…
By Franck Pachot . This error message is misleading. You may encounter it when you expect ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. Let’s explain I’m connected as SCOTT and create a PUBLIC SYNONYM for an object that do not exists: SQL> create public synonym MONEY for NOTHING; Synonym created. No error message. Only when I read it I have…
