Exadata

RMAN channels in RAC

By Franck Pachot . When you want to minimize the backup or restore duration, you can parallelize RMAN operations by allocating multiple channels. If you are in cluster, you can open channels from several nodes. Let's see why, how, and(…)

Oracle and Analytic Queries before In-Memory option

By Franck Pachot . Next Tuesday in Geneva I'm presenting Oracle In-Memory Column Store to Business Intelligence people at the Swiss BI Day After defining what is an analytic query, I show the different approaches to optimize that in(…)

Never gather WORKLOAD stats on Exadata…

By Franck Pachot . For Exadata, oracle has introduced an ‘EXADATA’ mode which sets a high transfer rate (with IOTFRSPEED as in NOWORKLOAD statistics) and set a MBRC (as in WORKLOAD statistics). Those values are set rather than gathered(…)

How to measure Exadata SmartScan efficiency

By Franck Pachot . A thread on OTN Forum about Exadata came to the following question: “But how can I monitor if it is effectively used or not?”. This is a common question. There are 3 exclusive features coming(…)

Oracle Exadata – poor optimization for FIRST_ROWS

By Franck Pachot . In a previous blog, I discussed the difference between rownum and row_number(), in particular their behaviour in implicitely adding a first_rows(n) to the optimizer. That reminded me that I forgot to blog about an(…)

UKOUG Day 2: Exadata Management Deep Dive with OEM Cloud 12c

I started the second day ay UKOUG with an Exadata Management Deep dive with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c. Through a certain numer of plugins, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c offers an integrated view of hardware and software. In(…)

UKOUG Day 1: Oracle Optimizer 12c, Cost Based Optimizer, Exadata

Today was the first day of the United Kingdom Oracle User Group (UKOUG) – usually called the Super Sunday! I already participated in today’s first session three weeks ago in Geneva, but my colleague Nicolas Jardot was talking about(…)

Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) – an overview

Last february, I had the chance to attend an Oracle presentation about ODA: Oracle Database Appliance. I found it interessant to share what I have learned about this technology. Which, I confess, convinced me. Summary Before developing the software(…)

OakTable at UKOUG 2012: Hybrid Columnar Compression (Exadata), SQL tuning, etc.

Yesterday, I went to a set of sessions organized by OakTable members just before the kick-off of the UKOUG conference 2012, one of the biggest events on Oracle Technology and E-Business in Europe. This post focuses on some of(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – the world is not enough: Larry’s keynote on Oracle 12c, etc.

I am pretty sure you are wondering what Larry Ellison announced in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, especially concerning Oracle 12c! In fact there were three major announcements, which I will cover in this posting. But first, let’s start with Fujitsu’s(…)