By Franck Pachot . Do you know why Oracle Database is a leader in the database market since 30 years? Do you know any other software that is still the leading solution after decades? I think that it is because Oracle has been a good software from the get-go. Many early decisions in the software architecture have revealed themselves later…
Since Oracle 10g, Oracle provides a great tool to import and export data from databases: Data Pump. This tool offers several helpful options, particularly one that allows to import data in a different tablespace than the source database. This parameter is REMAP_TABLESPACE. However, how can you do the same when you cannot use Data Pump to perform Oracle import and…
Ayant rencontré récemment des problèmes de blocs corrompus sur des bases Oracle en version Oracle 10g et Oracle 11g, des différences notables sont apparues notamment au niveau de la vue v$database_block_corruption. Je vous livre dans ce post le résultat de mes tests.
My colleague Hervé Schweitzer reported a very interesting issue to me. It is about the usage of Grid Control 11g while monitoring the available space on an Oracle database – in our case a 10.2.0.3 target database. This post continues my last post about the free space management in a tablespace in relation to the recycle bin management.
Last Week at my Customer, I used dbua to upgrade an oracle database 10h to 11g, the migration run successfully. But next day I had a monitoring message that the diag directory is groing very fast.
Aprés le post sur « Utilisons les securefile », revenons sur le sujet LOB avec une approche performance, stockage.
Nous rencontrons parfois des modèles de données étranges, nous aurions envies en tant que DBA de tout reprendre à zéro pour refaire un modele relationnel en 3em forme normal (3NF), plus efficace et mieux conçu dans notre « RDBMS » favori, mais la réalité étant
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Last week, I was not able to complete a backup because of the ORA-19566 error: “exceeded limit of 0 corrupt blocks”. Here is what you can do to fix it. Starting Point: backup error Here is the starting point of this case. The following error is found in the RMAN Backup log file: allocated channel: ch1 channel ch1: sid=25 devtype=DISK…
Sometimes, you need to modify the statistics of a table. There are various reasons: either for the performance analysis or because the execution plan changed. Oracle offers two methods: statistics restore or statistics export. Both are in the dbms_stats package. 1. Statistics restore This method uses the procedure dbms_stats.restore_%_stats, where % can be table, schema, database, and fixed_objects. This is…
Are you often trying to find some functionalities into ORACLE 10gR2, ORACLE 11gR2 or MySQL documentation ? Of course each time you are looking for this documentation you find unofficial documentation which is never corresponding to the version you are looking for.. we have the solution, three firefox add-ons that will allow you to easily find the right official Oracle
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Index compression comes from Oracle 8i and has quite the same mechanism as table compression. Index compression eliminates duplicate column values in the leaf blocks. Let’s see how it works:
What is finally the primary objective of a database? Storing Data 
The question is, how Oracle makes it. For many beginners a confusing topic is
to get the picture between physical storage and logical one. So how does it works?
Quelles sont les faiblesses de l’encryption des mots de passe Oracle ? Comment est-ce qu’Oracle crée les clés de hachage afin d’en améliorer la sécurité ? C’est ce que je vous propose de découvrir dans ce post. Le mot de passe est la forme la plus commune d’authentification. Ce dernier est stocké dans une table Oracle sous la forme d’une…
