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PostgreSQL 11: Procedures and transaction control

Up to PostgreSQL 10 it was not possible to create procedures in PostgreSQL. Of course you can create functions which do not return anything but the possibility to create a procedure was not there. That will probably change in PostgreSQL(…)

redhat event Ansible Automates Zurich

Here are some fresh personal impressions from the “Ansible Automates Zurich” half day event organized by redhat. There was a overwhelming interest for this event. About 200 people filled the room and there were many more on the waiting(…)

SQL Server 2017: Can I run a “standard” rebuild on the index after a Resumable Online Index Rebuild is suspended?

This article is an additional article to my precedent about “SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?”(…)

SQL Server 2017: What’s happens with an interruption during a Resumable Online Index Rebuild?

Last week, I presented this option in our internal event, the dbi xChange. My colleague David Barbarin asked me this question, what’s append if an interruption occurs (reboot, SQL Server service stopped,…) during a Resumable(…)

Finally you will be able to use exit and quit in psql

When giving the PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop one of the main issues people have is how they can exit psql. Even on stackoverflow this is a popular topic. The good news(…)

Result cache invalidation caused by DML locks

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post about Result Cache, I was using 'set autotrace on' in my session to see when the result cache hit saves the logical reads. I got a comment, by(…)

Automatic Block Media Recovery in a DataGuard

By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 12.2, in a Data Guard environment corrupted data blocks can be automatically replaced with uncorrupted copies of those blocks. There are just some requirements: • The physical standby database must be operating in(…)

Connect-times to the DB suddenly become very slow using sqlcl

I recently wrote a couple of sql-scripts which had to run on all of my customer’s DBs. The sql-scripts had to be started from a Linux-client, which does not have any Oracle client software installed. So I thought of using(…)

18c PDB switchover

By Franck Pachot . In multitenant, the recovery and availability are at CDB level. But customers asked for a switchover at PDB level so Oracle has done that in 18c, based on refreshable PDBs. For this test I have two(…)

Enabled, Accepted, Fixed SQL Plan Baselines

By Franck Pachot . When the documentation is not always clear, I prefer to build a test case to be sure about the behavior in different context and different versions. Here is a test on SQL Plan Management to show(…)