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UKOUG roadmap to maintenance windows… please enjoy this copy of the recent presentation I gave at the UKOUG 2012 conference in Birmingham England. Feedback and comments always welcome.
GoldenGate discard files can get big and cumbersome. To address this, I have build a PL/SQL function to read the discard files thereby reducing the output to one line per error and it also means that I can apply SQL logic to filter out the unwanted entries. Here’s how to do it.
In this blog post I would like to share with you how I have transferred optimizer statistics and as result managed to get exactly the same execution plans in both production and development environments. I am not going to go through all the details in this blog post as I am limited in time today. You can find all the steps I have used in my github.com script repository.
This post is the first in a series of discussions … perhaps you have never had the pleasure of needing to change a character set. If you have not and soon do, purchase a good sleeping bag as you may be at the office late for a few days to get the task accomplished.
I made this blog title intentionally provocative. However it isn’t far from the truth. Don’t believe me? Continue reading :)
Any database upgrade suppose to change SQLs’ execution plans for the better. In 99 cases out of 100 this is exactly what happens. What to do with rest 1% of the SQLs? This blog post is exactly about such unlucky case I have resolved today. Hope that you will learn something out of it. As always let me know what you think using the comments section at the end of the post.
I find myself forgetting on how to disable Oracle AUTO_TASKs on regular basis. Therefore I have decided to document it under this small blog post. As an additional bonus I may hear others experience in the area. So if you disagree or have some other experience please do not hesitate to comment under this post.
Just received a page about “Corrupt block”. From the first look it kind of scary to receive such page 40 minutes before your shift ends. Right?
After examining an alert.log (see below) and looking through knowledge bases found an explanation that it isn’t as bad as I thought. I liked the explanation I found therefore I decided to share it with rest of the world. Here you go folks
In this blog post I am publishing my SLOB tests results and conclusions testing Oracle database IO performance placing data files on NFS directly and on ASM disk group located on NFS.
My tweet few days ago – “Personally I don’t see the point building ASM on (d)NFS. ASM suppose to exclude unnecessary layers. In NAS case it adds an additional layer.” Since then Oracle people in my Social Media environment helped me to find several legitimate reasons to run ASM on NAS. Thank you folks very much. Now I am sharing our common thoughts with the rest of the community.
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