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Make Oracle database simple again!

Introduction Let’s have a look at how to make Oracle database as simple as it was before. Oracle database is a great piece of software, yes it’s quite expensive, but it’s still the reference and most of the companies can(…)

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about(…)

SQL Server Tips: Orphan database user but not so orphan…

Beginning of this year, it is good to clean up orphan users in SQL Server databases. Even if this practice must be done regularly throughout the year of course. 😉 During my cleaning day, a new case appears that(…)

PostgreSQL 13: parallel vacuum for indexes

Because of its implementation of MVCC PostgreSQL needs a way to cleanup old/dead rows and this is the responsibility of vacuum. Up to PostgreSQL 12 this is done table per table and(…)

Deploying your own PostgreSQL image on Nutanix Era – 2 – Deploying a new PostgreSQL VM

In the last post I described how you can create your own PostgreSQL image in Nutanix Era. In Nutanix wording this is a "Software profile". This profile can now be used to deploy PostgreSQL VMs with(…)

Dbvisit 9: Adding datafiles and or tempfiles

By Mouhamadou Diaw One question I was asking is if the standby_file_management parameter is relevant in a Dbvisit environment with Oracle Standard Edition. I did some tests and I show here what I did. We suppose that the Dbvisit(…)

Deploying your own PostgreSQL image on Nutanix Era

Some days ago we had a very good training on Nutanix. Nutanix is a Hyper-converged infrastructure and that means that all is software driven and the system can be deployed on many(…)

Dbvisit Standby 9 : Do you know the new snapshot feature?

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dbvisit snapshot option is a new feature available starting from version 9.0.06. I have tested this option and in this blog I am describing the tasks I have done. The configuration I am using is following(…)

ARRAYSIZE or ROWPREFETCH in sqlplus?

ARRAYSIZE or ROWPREFETCH in sqlplus? What is the difference between the well known sqlplus-setting arraysize and the new sqlplus-12.2.-feature rowprefetch? In Blog https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/oracle-fasttrue-in-sqlplus-some-thoughts-about-rowprefetch/ I showed a case, which helps to reduce the logical IOs when(…)

Oracle FAST=TRUE in sqlplus? Some thoughts about rowprefetch

During my time as a Consultant working on Tuning Tasks I had the feeling that many people think that there is an Oracle-parameter “FAST=TRUE” to speed up the performance and throughput of the database calls. Unfortunately such a parameter is(…)