By Franck Pachot . Oracle In-Memory option is for reporting. Oracle has chosen an hybrid approach: maintain the In-Memory Column Store in addition of the buffer cache. Dont’ forget our In-Memory event, but for the moment, let’s try the 1M row insert when the target table is IN MEMORY. 12c I’ve done the previous variations on 11g because I wanted…
By Franck Pachot . This year is the year of migration to 12c. Each Oracle version had its CBO feature that make it challenging. The most famous was the bind variable peeking in 9iR2. Cardinality feedback in 11g also came with some surprises. 12c comes with SPD in any edition, which is accompanied by Adaptive Dynamic Sampling. If you want…
By Franck Pachot . In-Memory Column Store is amazing. It brings very good performance to full table scans. I’t easy: just ‘flip a switch’ and you accelerate all reporting queries on your table, without thinking about what to index and how. But in this post, I would like to warn you about the consequences when you just flip that switch.…
By Franck Pachot . This is a very short post about something I though I had already blogged about. I like SQL Monitoring active reports. The are graphical, and still very light. There is only one thing I don’t like about it in 11g and it has been improved in 12c Look at the following. The query has run for…
By Franck Pachot . Can we shutdown abort a PDB? Let’s try: SQL> show con_id CON_ID —————————— 3SQL> shutdown abort; Pluggable Database closed. But is it really a shutdown abort? The shutdown abort we know in non-CDB – or in a CDB from CDB$ROOT – is used when the instance cannot checkpoint before closing the file. It leaves the files…
By Franck Pachot . Various methods of table compression have been introduced at each release. Some require a specific storage system Some requires specific options. Some are only for static data. And it’s not always very clear for the simple reason that their name has changed. Name change for technical reasons (ROW/COLUMN STORE precision when a columnar compression has been…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve written about 12c online statistics gathering in a UKOUG OracleScene article. My opinion is clear about it: you sill need to gather stale stats afterwards or you have mising, stale and inconsistent object statistics. This post is about cases where online statistics gathering does not occur (and are not documented) – which is another reason…
By Franck Pachot . There has been the announce that non-CDB is deprecated, and the reaction that CDB is not yet stable. Well. Let’s talk about the major issue I’ve encountered. Multitenant is there for consolidation. What is the major requirement of consolidation? It’s availability. If you put all your databases into one server and managed by one instance, then…
By Franck Pachot . I’ve not finished with my investigation on 12c multitenant dictionary. Here, I’m checking how metadata links are managed by the dictionary cache (aka rowcache). As I did previously, I’ll create a metadata link function in my lab environment (this is not for production. For the moment metadata/object links are supported only for oracle objects). SQL> connect…
By Franck Pachot . This is a question that starts to be raised quite frequently. Oracle released the multitenant architecture 1.5 year ago. And now says that the previous architecture – known as non-CDB – is deprecated. What does it mean? Do we have to go to the CDB architecture even if we don’t want to use/pay multi-tenant? It started…
By Franck Pachot . This is a second part of the previous post about metadata link. I’ve shown how a sharing=metadata function becomes a sharing=none function when it is changed in the pdb – i.e when not having the same DDL, not having a different signature. Here is another experimentation doing the opposite: change the function in root and see…
By Franck Pachot . As in previous posts (1 and 2) I’m still playing with multitenant dictionary. You may wonder why I’m spending time to do unsupported things that we will never be able to use in real life. Of course, playing with internals is fun 😉 But it’s not only that. We will implement CDB databases (multi-tenant, and single-tenant…
