Oracle

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(…)

Dbvisit Standby Archive Log Daemon

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(…)

After IoT, IoP makes its way to the database

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(…)