Oracle 12c

Unplugged pluggable databases

By Franck Pachot . When Oracle Multitenant came out in 12c, with pluggable databases, it was easy to draw them as USB sticks that you can plug and unplug to/from your Container Database (CDB). I don't like this because it(…)

Windows: Sauvegarde RMAN sur un disque partagé

Dans ce blog, je vais vous expliquer comment exporter les backups RMAN sur un « share disk » appartenant à un Domaine. Assurer la sécurité des données est l’une des tâches principales de l’administrateur : La mise en œuvre d’une protection des fichiers sensibles(…)

Multitenant internals: object links on fixed tables

By Franck Pachot . The previous post partly answered to the original question (why an object link to V$SESSION is refreshed only every 30 seconds): recursive queries on shared=object views. Now let's see what is different(…)

Multitenant internals: how object links are parsed/executed

By Franck Pachot . I had a comment on object links internals when creating a sharing=object view on GV$SESSION. Before posting about this specific case, I realized that I've never explained how a query on(…)

DBA essentials workshop with release Oracle 12c is Available

It’s with pleasure to announced dbi services have upgrade the infrastructure for Oracle DBA essentials workshop. We have migrate the release of Oracle 11g R2 to the latest version Oracle 12c features and install the last PSU (April 2016).

Oracle Multitenant feature name

By Franck Pachot . We all know what is the multitenant option: a container database (CDB) with multiple user pluggable databases (PDB). This requires Enterprise Edition plus option. But you can use the same architecture without the option and even(…)

Statspack Idle Events

By Franck Pachot . When you don't have Enterprise Edition + Diagnostic Pack, you cannot use AWR but you can, and should, install Statspack. Statspack is still there, but unfortunately do not evolve a lot. The most important section, the(…)

Adaptive Plans and SQL Baselines

By Franck Pachot . I encountered recently an issue with Adaptive Plan and SPM. Documentations says that it works perfectly together but I remembered a presentation from Nelson Calero at UKOUG TECH15 mentioning strange behavior. I reproduced the issue and(…)

12c online datafile move and resize

By Franck Pachot . I've described in previous posts how the 12c online datafile move works: your session process do the copy and tells other writers (dbwr and direct-path inserts) to write blocks to both files (old one and new(…)

Single-Tenant vs. non-CDB: no reason to refuse it

By Franck Pachot . When non-CDB has been declared deprecated, I was a bit upset because multitenant with a lone PDB just looks like an overhead of 3 containers instead of one. But with experience I changed my mind. First(…)