Oracle

List listeners and services from the instance

By Franck Pachot . Want to know all your listeners – including scan listeners, and the services it listens for? It is possible from the instance, with the – undocumented – view V$LISTENER_NETWORK which is there since 11.2 Let’s(…)

ALTER TABLE INMEMORY

By Franck Pachot . In-Memory Column Store is amazing. It brings very good performance to full table scans. I’t easy: just ‘flip a switch’ and you accelerate all reporting queries on your table, without thinking about what to index(…)

C15LV: Nothing to BLOG About – Think Again

By Franck Pachot . Before going to the airport to come back in Europe, the las session I assisted at IOUG Collaborate is a panel: Nothing to BLOG About – Think Again Some famous bloggers were there to help,(…)

SQL Monitor report little improvement in 12c

By Franck Pachot . This is a very short post about something I though I had already blogged about. I like SQL Monitoring active reports. The are graphical, and still very light. There is only one thing I don’t(…)

Yesterday’s AWR Straight to the Goal

By Franck Pachot . Yesterday I was a speaker at Collaborate15 and did my presentation about reading an AWR report. That was great. Many people (and not enough seats). Here are some aswers about questions that came later. I(…)

Cloning a PDB from a standby database

By Franck Pachot . Great events like IOUG Collaborate is a good way to meet experts we know through blogs, twitter,etc. Yesterday evening, with nice music in the background, I was talking with Leighton Nelson about cloning PDB(…)

RAC Attack! was another great success at C15LV

By Franck Pachot . The RAC Attack  – install a RAC in your own laptop – is a great success at Las Vegas. The idea is to help people follow the RAC Attack cookbook which is available at:(…)

Dbvisit replicate REDO_READ_METHOD

By Franck Pachot . A frequent question about replication is the overhead in the source, because in a lot of cases the source is production. Dbvisit replicate comes with the possibility to do the minimum on the source: only(…)

DataGuard wait events have changed in 12c

By Franck Pachot . There are several new features in 12c about Data Guard: cascaded standby, far sync instance. But there are also some architecture changes: new processes and new wait events. Here is an example of an(…)

Oracle tuning silver bullet: add an order by to make your query faster

By Franck Pachot . You have read all Cary Millsap work about Oracle database performance tuning. You know that there are no silver bullets. Reducing the response time requires a methodical approach in order to analyze the response time(…)