Annonce : Oracle Database In-Memory Advisor

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 25, 2015
Oracle Database In-Memory Advisor est maintenant disponible.
Pour utiliser cet assistant, le "Database Tuning Pack" est nécessaire.

Plus d'information :
  • Page OTN
  • Note MOS 1965342.1

Complément : Tutoriels sur Oracle Public Cloud

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 24, 2015

Complément : Vidéos Oracle Public Cloud

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 23, 2015

Test MySQL on AWS quickly

Database Management and Performance
| Feb 19, 2015

Using sysbench to performance test AWS RDS MySQL hardware is an easy three step  operation. 

Sysbench creates synthetic tests and they are done on a 1 mil row 'sbtest' table that sysbench creates in the MySQL database you indicate. The test doesn't intrude with your database schema, and it doesn't use your data, so it is quite safe. The test is an OLTP test trying to simulate event operations in the database as it (more...)

Complément : Analyse de performances via AWR Warehouse

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 15, 2015

Annonce : Workshop DBaaS

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 15, 2015
Un workshop sur le sujet DBaaS, à destination des partenaires Oracle, aura lieu le 4 et 5 mars à Colombes (France)
Plus de détails : http://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x1713052088

MySQL Locking

Database Management and Performance
| Jan 5, 2015
Have you ever wondered if MySQL does Row Level Locking? Or wondered why are you getting the error:

ERROR 1205 (HY000) : Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction

You get the error because your allocated time to hold a DML lock in a transaction exceeds the set limit. Usually the default limit to hold a DML row lock, set by innodb_lock_wait_timeout db parameter, is 50 seconds. If your transaction doesn't commit/rollback within 50 seconds (more...)

DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs running an hour late – DST/BST issues!

Database Management and Performance
| Oct 31, 2014
This week one of our developers highlighted the fact that the DBMS_SCHEDULER on one of our 11.2.0.3 databases was running jobs an hour later than scheduled until just recently, when the clocks went back (26/10/2014) for British Summer Time (BST) …and now they’re running on-time again! I’d not seen this before, and at first I thought we

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Patching Time

Database Management and Performance
| Oct 15, 2014

Just a quick note to point out that the October PSU was just released. The database has a few more vulnerabilities than usual (31), but they are mostly related to Java and the high CVSS score of 9 only applies to people running Oracle on windows. (On other operating systems, the highest score is 6.5.)

I did happen to glance at the announcement on the security blog, and I thought this short (more...)

Move That Datafile!

Database Management and Performance
| Jun 19, 2014
Moving datafiles has always been a pain.  There are several steps, it’s fairly easy to make a mistake and it requires the datafile to be offline.  There are also different steps depending on whether the database is in ARCHIVELOG mode or not.  In ARCHIVELOG mode, the steps are…

1)      Take the tablespace containing the datafile offline
2)      Copy/rename the datafile at the OS layer
3)      Use ALTER TABLESPACE…RENAME DATAFILE (more...)

Oracle 12c – New SYS-level Administration Privileges

Database Management and Performance
| Jun 4, 2014
For a while now, Oracle has been moving its security model toward a more differentiated set of privileges than just SYSDBA and SYSOPER.  We saw this in 11g with the SYSASM privilege.  This is in response to the growing number of DBA shops that delineate permissions at a more granular level, even among DBAs.  Rather than saying, “Here’s my DBA team, everyone has SYSDBA,” more and more IT shops are defining DBA (more...)

The OLAP Extension is now available in SQL Developer 4.0

Business Intelligence
| Mar 4, 2014


The OLAP Extension is now in SQL Developer 4.0.

See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/sqldev-releasenotes-v4-1925251.html for the details.

The (more...)

Tightening Security with SELECT ANY DICTIONARY in Oracle 12c

Database Management and Performance
| Sep 12, 2013
Developers and users sometimes request the SELECT ANY DICTIONARY system privilege to enable them to view various data dictionary tables.  This may be fine for querying DBA_TABLES, etc, but the Oracle data dictionary contains a LOT of information.  Some of the views/tables are compromising from a security standpoint. (more...)

Data Pump 12c – Pumping Data with the LOGTIME Parameter

Database Management and Performance
| Aug 27, 2013
Since its release, Oracle Data Pump has been a worthy successor to the traditional exp/imp tools.  However, one area lacking with Data Pump has been something as simple as the ability to identify how long each step of a Data Pump job actually takes.  The log will show (more...)

Oracle 12c – Out With the Grid, In With the Cloud

Database Management and Performance
| Aug 7, 2013
So Oracle database 12c is out now.  The cloud (and hence the “c”) is hanging over us.  At least we don’t have to hear about “the grid” anymore.  New versions of Oracle are funny things – as DBAs, we’re kinda excited about the possibilities, but then reality (more...)

12c: Sqlplus Displays Last Login Time For Non – Sys Users

Database Management and Performance
| Jul 22, 2013

Original Post can be viewed at 12c: Sqlplus Displays Last Login Time For Non – Sys Users

12c database has introduces a pretty nifty Security feature which allows you to check last login time for non-sys user. e.g If I connect to scott user as below, it displays that (more...)

Oracle 12c has arrived

Database Applications Development
| Jul 8, 2013

I really didn't think we would be seeing 12c until OpenWorld. I got a nice surprise a couple of weeks ago when people started tweeting that the docs were out. That followed quickly with the actual software being available for download.

 

I realize that people won't really be producing (more...)

12c:Limiting PGA with pga_aggregate_limit

Database Management and Performance
| Jul 7, 2013

Original Post can be viewed at 12c:Limiting PGA with pga_aggregate_limit

This is a interesting feature for Oracle DBA’s. Till now there has been no way of limiting total PGA being used by oracle instance. _pga_max_size (hidden parameter) could be used to limit per process memory. SGA_TARGET used to be hard (more...)

Required Reading

Database Applications Development
| Jun 12, 2013
It's not often that I run across articles that really resonate with me. Last night was one of those rare occasions. What follows is a sampling of what I consider to be required reading for any IT professional with a slant towards database development.

Bad CaRMa

Oracle Database Gateways 11g R2 (11.2) Installation and Configuration for heterogeneous connection from Oracle to Microsoft SQL database

Database Applications Development
| Apr 15, 2013

Installation

Install the Oracle Database Gateways 11g R2 (11.2). See the screen snapshots of the installation here.

Configuration

  • During the installation, the following+ default initialization parameter file is created:
[ORACLE_DG_HOME]dg4msqladmininitdg4msql.ora
dg4msql = Database gateway for Microsoft SQL Server. 
If you choose a different database option, use the appropriate path name.
  • Copy initdg4msql.ora to a new file init[MSSQL].ora.
[MSSQL] can be any meaningful name easier to refer to,  (more...)