Oracle

ADWC – System and session settings (DWCS lockdown profile)

By Franck Pachot . The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service is a PaaS managed service where we have a PDB and an ADMIN user which has most of the system privileges. For example, we have the privilege to change initialization(…)

12c upuserxt.lst, upobjxt.lst & Oracle Maintained objects/users

By Franck Pachot . Mike Dietrich has blogged recently about upuserxt.lst and upobjxt.lst and how to query them with external table. The first time I've seen those '.lst' files, the default extension(…)

ADWC – connect from your premises

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.

SQL Developer Web on the Oracle 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(…)

Some ideas about Oracle Database on Docker

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(…)

ADWC – the hidden gem: Zepplin Notebook

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(…)

ADWC – a Docker container to start/stop Oracle Cloud services

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(…)

ADWC: start/stop with PSM Command Line Interface

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(…)

ADWC: Creation of Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service

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(…)

Covering indexes in Oracle, and branch size

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(…)