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What about ALTER INDEX … SHRINK SPACE ?

By Franck Pachot . I have recently published a script to check index fragmentation. But then, do you COALESCE or REBUILD? Well, there also is another option: ALTER INDEX SHRINK SPACE. Let’s compare all those index defragmentation operations.

Windows 10: The new features

First, it should have been Windows 9, but finally the new Microsoft operating system is named Windows 10! In the same way as for my blog post on Windows 8, I have decided to write a few words(…)

Documentum upgrade project: Configuring NTLM SSO for D2 3.1 SP1

The Documentum D2 3.1 SP1 release is kind of a mix between D2 4.1 APIs (using D2FS in backend) and D2 3.1 front-end. It needs SSO to be fully implemented and the configuration has to be applied for 3.1(…)

Oracle Cloud Control 12c: removing an agent is much easier in OEM 12.1.0.4

To remove an agent in the previous Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12c versions, you first had to delete its targets, stop the agent, and remove the host target. Only then were you able to remove the agent. In version 12.1.0.4,(…)

Oracle IOT: when to use Index Organized Tables

By Franck Pachot . When can we use IOT? That’s a question I had when giving recently the Oracle DBA essentials workshop. the DBA Essential is very dense and there is only half a day about performance. We(…)

SQL Server: Forced failover with AlwaysOn & Availability Groups

During a workshop at one of my customer about the implementation of SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups, I had an interesting discussion. It was about asynchronous replication between 2 replicas and the effect of the forced failover operation(…)

Documentum upgrade project: Wrong icons in D2 search results with xPlore

After migrating from “Fast” to “xPlore” Documentum full-text search engine, our team discovered wrong icons in D2 search results. Documents in checked-out state continued to be displayed with the normal icon, even if xPlore indexed attribute value for “r_lock_owner”.

Oracle system statistics: Display AUX_STATS$ with calculated values and formulas

By Franck Pachot . System statistics can be gathered in NOWORKLOAD or WORKLOAD mode. Different values will be set depending on that and the others will be calculated – derived from them. We can see defined values from SYS.AUX_STATS$(…)

How to measure Oracle index fragmentation

By Franck Pachot . At Oracle Open World 2014, or rather the Oaktable World, Chris Antognini has presented ‘Indexes: Structure, Splits and Free Space Management Internals’. It’s not something new, but it’s still something that is not(…)

Documentum upgrade project: ADTS local user or domain user?

ADTS local user or domain user: Which user should I choose as the installation owner? This question is important if you are installing a new Advanced Document Transformation Services (ADTS).  You can opt for a domain user in order to(…)