It was announced at Oracle Open World 2017 and here it is just before the start of OOW18: an RPM to install the Oracle Database software.
In the Oracle Database 18c download page there are two files for 18.3. One is a zip of the Oracle Home that we have to unzip and run the setup (named runInstaller but different than the one we had in pre-18c releases). The other file is an RPM: oracle-database-ee-18c-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Here is my #ThanksODC post. A long one... There's a point that should always be a major topic for database developer community discussions: where to run the procedural code. The access to data is in the database, for sure, and the language for it is SQL. But very often, the business logic of a transaction cannot be executed in one single SQL statement. Either because it is too complex and requires a procedural language.
Java Mission Control was introduced with JDK 7u40. With JDK 8u40 and later, you can get JMC to monitor any Java workload out of the box. However, in order to customise how JMC and JFR will act we need to configure the Java Virtual Machines and technologies running them ourselves.
This post will explain how to enable JFR, log-in details for remote monitoring, configure ports and pass any arguments you want to the JVM when using Tomcat and Docker with JMC. In this blog, our test environments will only be Tomcat and Docker.
In Oracle we need to have a index on the foreign key column as soon as we have the intention to delete from the parent row, or a locking situation may block all transactions around the child table. PostgreSQL has a similar way to manage isolation, with MVCC, then do you think you also need to index the foreign keys? Here is a test that confirms that postgres does need to not lock the tables even without index on the foreign key.
The DBOD service maintains a web interface allowing "database on demand" users to carry out ordinary tasks without intervention of the administrators.
Here is a quick test I did after encountering an abnormal behavior in write consistency and before finding some references to a bug on StackOverflow (yes, write consistency questions on StackOverflow!) and AskTOM. And a bug opened by Tom Kyte in 2011, that is still there in 18c.
Did you ever try to query DBA_EXTENTS on a very large database with LMT tablespaces? I had to, in the past, in order to find which segment a corrupt block belonged to. The information about extent allocation is stored in the datafiles headers, visible though X$KTFBUE, and queries on it can be very expensive. In addition to that, the optimizer tends to start with the segments and get to this X$KTFBUE for each of them. At this time, I had quickly created a view on the internal dictionary tables, forcing to start by X$KTFBUE with materialized CTE, to replace DBA_EXTENTS.
In the previous post I used a simple oci-curl() function as a Command Line Interface to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure without installing any client tool or language. It was easy for simple things such as starting and stopping services. But it can also be more powerful because it is simply a wrapper to call the OCI REST API, simplifying the sign-in and authentication, but allowing to run any GET, POST, PUT and DELETE method.
In the previous post I've setup all the environment to be able to easily control the OCI services without bothering with the sign-in headers, and without installing anything. In this post I'll used the oci-curl() function to stop all my Autonomous Database services. In the previous post, I've set the environment variables for the private and public key, and the user, tenant and compartment OCIDs.
As you may have read in the news, CERN is testing some Oracle Cloud services. When a large organisation is using the Cloud Credits, there's a need to control the service resources. This requires automation and then the GUI interface from the Cloud portal is not sufficient. We can control the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through the REST API, OCI CLI, OCI SDKs, and all those methods require a RSA key for sign-in and some OCI (Oracle Cloud Identifier) to identify the user, the tenant, the compartment, the service,...
