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Testing Oracle SQL online

By Franck Pachot . Want to test some DDL, a query, check an execution plan? You need only a browser. And you can copy-paste, or simply link, your test-case in a forum, a tweet, an e-mail, a tweet. Here is(…)

Explain Plan format

By Franck Pachot . The DBMS_XPLAN format accepts a lot of options, which are not all documented. Here is a small recap of available information. The minimum that is displayed is the Plan Line Id, the Operation, and the Object(…)

Unplug an Encrypted PDB (ORA-46680: master keys of the container database must be exported)

By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Database Cloud DBaaS you provision a multitenant database where tablespaces are encrypted. This means that when you unplug/plug the pluggable databases, you also need to export /import the encryption keys. You cannot just(…)

SQL Server on Linux and logging

On Windows world, SQL Server logs information both into the SQL Server error log and the Application log. Both automatically timestamp all recorded events. Unlike the SQL Server error log, the Windows application log provides an overall picture of events(…)

Alfresco DevCon 2018 – Day 2 – Big files, Solr Sharding and Minecraft, again!

Today is the second day of the Alfresco DevCon 2018 and therefore yes, it is already over, unfortunately. In this blog, I will be continuing my previous(…)

Alfresco DevCon 2018 – Day 1 – ADF, ADF and… ADF!

Here we are, the Alfresco DevCon 2018 day-1 is over (well except for the social party)! It’s been already 2 years I attended my last Alfresco event (BeeCon 2016, first of its name (organized by the Order of(…)

Oracle Application Container: a Swiss Use case

Here we want to start a business in Switzerland in 3 different areas and make it easy to start a new market area as soon as required by that business. We are going to use the Application Container feature in(…)

Moving tables ONLINE on filegroup with constraints and LOB data

Let’s start this new week by going back to a discussion with one of my customers a couple of days ago about moving several tables into different filegroups. Let’s say that some of them contained LOB data. Let’s add to the game another customer requirement: moving all of them ONLINE(…)

Spectre and Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – LIO

By Franck Pachot . In the last post I published the strange results I had when testing physical I/O with the latest Spectre and Meltdown patches. There is the logical I/O with(…)

Spectre/Meltdown on Oracle Public Cloud UEK – PIO

By Franck Pachot . The Spectre and Meltdown is now in the latest Oracle UEK kernel, after updating it with 'yum update': [opc@PTI ~]$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-uek | awk '/CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754/{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c 43 {CVE-2017-5715} 16(…)