Oracle SQL Trace: Is it Safe for Production Use?
Perhaps you have been approached by a client or manager and tasked with troubleshooting one or more...
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Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service
If you are using a remote Oracle database service, such as Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction...
Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO
When Oracle introduced version 12.1 of the RDBMS, an interesting new parameter was included:...
Automating Scripts Via SSH
Have you ever logged on to a Linux machine, only to be greeted by a prompt requesting you make some...
SYSQL: SysAdmin Query Language
What is SYSQL? Recently Tanel Poder and I were discussing the use of Linux command pipelines for...
Select vs Assign – How To Assign PL/SQL Variables
Select vs Assign It isn’t unusual to see PL/SQL that contains select columns into variables from...
How to Make Oracle Use the Correct Index
When the “wrong” index is used for a SQL query, it’s sometimes a struggle to coerce Oracle to use...
Installing OCI Command Line Utilities in Linux and Windows
As part of a recent project, I installed the Oracle Cloud command line utilities (oci) on the...
Oracle RAC: Network Performance with Jumbo Frames
Introduction When working with Oracle RAC, it's strongly advised to use Jumbo Frames for the...
World Backup Day - Protect Your Oracle Databases
In recognition of World Backup Day, I will discuss backups as they pertain to Oracle databases....
