Tag: Oracle
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Troubleshoot I/O & Wait Latency with OraLatencyMap and PyLatencyMap
Troubleshoot I/O & Wait Latency with OraLatencyMap and PyLatencyMap I recently chased an Oracle performance issue where most reads were sub-millisecond (cache), but a thin band around ~10 ms (spindles) dominated total wait time. Classic bimodal latency: the fast band looked fine in averages, yet the rare slow band owned the delay. To investigate, and
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ATLAS DCS Analysis with Apache Spark and Jupyter Notebooks
ATLAS DCS Analysis with Apache Spark and Jupyter Notebooks The ATLAS Detector Control System (DCS) at CERN is essential for ensuring optimal detector performance. Each year, the system generates tens of billions of time-stamped sensor readings, presenting considerable challenges for large-scale data analysis. Although these data are stored in Oracle databases that excel in real-time
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Performance Comparison of 5 JDKs on Apache Spark
Performance Comparison of 5 JDKs on Apache Spark Dive into a comprehensive load-testing exploration using Apache Spark with CPU-intensive workloads. This blog provides a comparative analysis of five distinct JDKs’ performance under heavy-duty tasks generated through Spark. Discover a meticulous breakdown of our testing methodology, tools, and insightful results. Keep in mind, our observations primarily
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Exploratory Notebooks for Deep Learning, AI, and Data Tools: A Beginner’s Guide
Exploratory Notebooks for Deep Learning, AI, and Data Tools: A Beginner’s Guide Are you looking at some resources to get you up to speed with popular Deep Learning and Data processing frameworks? This blog entry provides a curated collection of notebooks that will help you kickstart your journey. You can find the notebooks at this
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CPU Load Testing Exercises: Tools and Analysis for Oracle Database Servers
CPU Load Testing Exercises: Tools and Analysis for Oracle Database Servers This document describes some basic CPU load testing exercises on three different types of database servers used by the Oracle Service at CERN. It reports on the tests performed, tools used for data gathering, data analysis, findings, and lessons learned. Motivations CPU usage is
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ORDS – Managing APEX static images
ORDS – Managing APEX static images In today’s post, we’ll be talking about the possible ways to manage the static images/CSS/JS that come shipped with APEX, when running on ORDS. They are separate resources (not contained in the DB like some other APEX images) necessary for your APEX applications look and behave the way they’re
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Building and documenting REST APIs with ORDS
Building and documenting REST APIs with ORDS Introduction In the first part of the article we will provide an overview of how you can use Oracle REST Data Services for providing APIs directly from your PL/SQL code . The second part covers how to document our Web services using Swagger. Lets begin with a couple
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Benefits of a multi-layer system
Benefits of a multi-layer system Introduction Designing a multi-layer system is not rocket science, the difficulty can lie in selecting the right technologies. The main concept behind the design is to have better control and fine tuning of the components. This blog post will discuss the benefits & limitations of implementing this type of design
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Oracle REST Data Services running on Tomcat – Basic Authentication using JNDI Realm
Oracle REST Data Services running on Tomcat – Basic Authentication using JNDI Realm What do we want to achieve? We want to protect our REST endpoints using Basic Authentication and authenticate the requests against our users directory (LDAP). We also want to manage the privileges centrally, through the ORDS Roles and Privileges (https://oracle-base.com/articles/misc/oracle-rest-data-services-ords-authentication#ords-roles-and-privileges), so no
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Oracle VPD as a safeguard for DML
Oracle VPD as a safeguard for DML Virtual Private Databases (VPD) is an Enterprise Edition feature related to security. It restricts the scope of Data Manipulation Language to a subset of the table rows by transparently adding a where clause before executing them. It is also called Row-Level Security (RLS). Where the policy is enabled,