Yes, I did it again, submitted and got two papers accepted – speaking at COLLABORATE16 in Las Vegas (#C16LV) is always a highlight of the year! This time, it will be: The Bad One In Your Crop – SQL Tuning Analysis For DBAs 4:30 PM–5:30 PM Apr 11, 2016, Palm-A Oracle Core: 12c InMemory Column […]
Featured by Oracle Magazine
The Oracle Magazine featured me in its January / February 2016 issue. I really feel honoured and would like to say thank you for the opportunity! For details, please see the Performing Databases Blog post about the publication. […]
DOAG noon2noon RAC & Dataguard – Quick Report
There’s always something to learn – for example about Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) and Dataguard. And the old-school frontal teaching concept is boring, and more important, ineffective after a few hours of passive listening. So the German Oracle Users Group DOAG organized a “noon2noon” event: “Oracle RAC and Dataguard” this week in Würzburg (January 2 1st-22nd 2016). It was the […]
How to disable Oracle ACFS drivers / registry resource
Sometimes an installed ACFS can cause trouble, especially if we don’t or can’t use it (e.g. when not using an UEK Linux kernel, like with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES). There’s lots of documentation how to create and maintain ACFS file systems, but how to get rid of ACFS at all wasn’t so easy to […]
Oracle 11g and 12c Cardinality Feedback Leads to Hundreds of Child Cursors
Sometimes, advanced features can bring advanced problems. Seeing a project with hundreds of child cursors with a different execution plan each, is never a pleasure, but there has to be a reason. In fact, we are talking about the “USE_FEEDBACK_STATS” reason in v$sql_shared_cursor. Its meaning is: “A hard parse is forced so that the optimizer can reoptimize […]
What is a “RAC Battle”?
RAC Battle [ræk ˈbæt̬l̩] What is a “RAC Battle”? It is a format of presenting technology – two experts, battling against each other on pros and cons of Oracle Real Application Cluster. Björn Rost (Oracle ACE Director) and Martin Klier (Oracle ACE) will fight Wednesday November 18th, 2015 11 am Nürnberg CCN (DOAG Konferenz 2015) […]
Oracle Database 11.2 Extended Support Waived
As announced today, Oracle waived the Extended Support for the period of February 2015 until May 2017. See the paper with details here. […]
Oracle 12c in practice – customer report in Cologne #12cjetzt
From Beta to Production – Oracle 12c at TGW In October, I’ll speak at the Oracle #12jetzt (#12cnow) symposium in Köln (Cologne) about the introduction of 12c as standard palttform at our ISV customer TGW Software Services. I had the privilege to continuously working on the 12c product evaluation and introduction from availability of 12c beta2 […]
Oracle dbms_workload_repository awr_global_report_text fails with ORA-06553 PLS-307
My last post was about generating AWR reports from SQL – not a very complicated case. “But” – little word, big meaning. And suddenly we get a strange error message. In my example, I was especially interested in a Real Application Cluster’s “global” report. The subprogram call for that purpose is dbms_workload_repository.awr_global_report_text(), accepting the DBID, begin […]
How to create an Oracle AWR report with SQL and PL/SQL
AWR is a great tool (but needs diagnostics pack). It can create very useful reports for performace analysis over a given period. Most people will pull the AWR Report from the OS level, with ‘@?/rdbms/admin/awrrpt.sql” (or one of the other scripts there). But sometime it’s not possible to access a database server’s OS level, or […]