Oracle

Postgres vs. Oracle access paths X – Update

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post we have seen the cheapest way to get one row, reading only one block from its physical location. But that's the optimal case where the row has not(…)

Postgres vs. Oracle access paths IX – Tid Scan

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post we have seen how Postgres and Oracle finds the table row from the index entry. It uses the TID / ROWID. I’ll focus on this access path(…)

Improving Statspack Experience

By Franck Pachot . I've published a few month ago an article in the UKOUG OracleScene magazine on Improving Statspack Experience: quick setup script, changing settings, filling Idle Events,etc. In the article, I used dbms_job to(…)

Bequeath connect to PDB: set container in logon trigger?

By Franck Pachot . There are little changes when you go to multitenant architecture and one of them is that you must connect with a service name. You cannot connect directly to a PDB with a beaqueath (aka local) connection.

Get trace file from server to client

By Franck Pachot . The old way to get a user dump trace file, for sql_trace (10046), Optimizer compilation trace (10053), lock trace (10704), Optimizer execution trace (10507),... is to go to the server trace directory. But if you don't(…)

Postgres vs. Oracle access paths VIII – Index Scan and Filter

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post we have seen a nice optimization to lower the consequences of bad correlation between the index and the table physical order: a bitmap, which may include false positives(…)

ODA X6 2S 2M 2L HA: Small Medium Large and High Availability

By Franck Pachot . There are 4 models of Oracle Database Appliance with the new ODA X6 which is for the moment the latest ODA hardware version. One is similar to the(…)

WebLogic – Cannot register for disconnect events on local server

When working with WebLogic, there will probably be a moment when you will ask yourself: damn, what is wrong? Nowadays, software are so complex that it is kind of easy to introduce bugs/non-wanted behaviors in them… In this blog, I(…)

Postgres vs. Oracle access paths VI – Index Scan

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post my queries were still reading the indexed column only, from a table which had no modifications since the last vacuum, and then didn't need to read table pages:(…)

Postgres vs. Oracle access paths V – FIRST ROWS and MIN/MAX

By Franck Pachot . We have seen how an index can help to avoid a sorting operation in the previous post. This avoids a blocking operation: the startup cost is minimal and the first rows can(…)