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July 2014

EMC XtremIO – The Full-Featured All-Flash Array. Interested In Oracle Performance? See The Whitepaper.

Submitted by kevinclosson on Fri, 2014-07-11 22:32

NOTE: There’s a link to the full article at the end of this post.

I recently submitted a manuscript to the EMC XtremIO Business Unit covering some compelling lab results from testing I concluded earlier this year. I hope you’ll find the paper interesting.

There is a link to the full paper at the bottom of this block post. I’ve pasted the executive summary here:

How to reformat corrupt blocks which are not part of any segment?

Submitted by rshamsud on Fri, 2014-07-11 20:20

There was a question in . Problem is that there were many corrupt blocks in the system tablespace not belonging to any segment. Both DBV and rman throws errors, backup is filling the v$database_block_corruption with numerous rows. OP asked to see if these blocks can be reinitialized. Also, note 336133.1 is relevant to this issue on hand.

User Group Meetings Next Week (free training everyone!)

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2014-07-11 15:23

I know, posts about up-coming user group meetings are not exactly exciting, but it’s good to be reminded. You can’t beat a bit of free training, can you?

On Monday 14th I am doing a lightning talk at the 4th Oracle Midlands event. The main reason to come along is to see Jonathan Lewis talk about designing efficient SQL and then he will also do a 10 minute session on Breaking Exadata (to achieve that aim I suggest you just follow the advice of the Oracle Sales teams, that will break Exadata for you pretty efficiently!).

Tuning EM12c, the OMS, Part II

Submitted by dbakevlar on Thu, 2014-07-10 20:20

We went over a few of the Java “tuning” options last time, so let’s go onto the OMS tier for this post.

Introducing the Analytic Keep Clause for Effective-Dated/Sequence Queries in PeopleSoft

Submitted by davidkurtz on Wed, 2014-07-09 18:46
Those of us who work with PeopleSoft, and especially the HCM product, are all too familiar with the concept of effect-dated data, and the need to find data that was effective at a particular date.  PeopleSoft products have always made extensive use of correlated sub-queries to determine the required rows from an effective-dated record.

The JOB record is a the heart of HCM. It is both effective-dated and effective sequenced. I will use it for the demonstrations in this article. I am going to suggest an alternative, although Oracle-specific, SQL construction.

 Let's start by looking at the job data for an employee in the demo database. Employee KF0018 has 17 rows of data two concurrent jobs.  The question I am going to ask is "What was the annual salary for this employee on 11 February 1995?".  Therefore, I am interested in the rows marked below with the asterisks. 

Introducing the Analytic Keep Clause for Effective-Dated/Sequence Queries in PeopleSoft

Submitted by davidkurtz on Wed, 2014-07-09 18:46
Those of us who work with PeopleSoft, and especially the HCM product, are all too familiar with the concept of effect-dated data, and the need to find data that was effective at a particular date.  PeopleSoft products have always made extensive use of correlated sub-queries to determine the required rows from an effective-dated record.

The JOB record is a the heart of HCM. It is both effective-dated and effective sequenced. I will use it for the demonstrations in this article. I am going to suggest an alternative, although Oracle-specific, SQL construction.

 Let's start by looking at the job data for an employee in the demo database. Employee KF0018 has 17 rows of data two concurrent jobs.  The question I am going to ask is "What was the annual salary for this employee on 11 February 1995?".  Therefore, I am interested in the rows marked below with the asterisks. 

Theory of Constraints: the rise of NoSQL

Submitted by khailey on Wed, 2014-07-09 16:38

 

nosql

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/NoDBA.html

Why did NoSQL arise?  The rise of NoSQL makes no sense if you read an article like “Why You Should Never Use MongoDB”  and the ycombinator replies . The I read something like this “Why You Should Use MongoDB” and don’t find any reasons just  ranting about why the first article was shoddy.

Setting up Direct NFS on Oracle 12c

Submitted by martin.bach on Wed, 2014-07-09 13:57

Direct NFS is a great feature that I have finally had the time to investigate further. Since I always forget how to set it up and I didn’t find blog posts about this subject elsewhere I decided to put something together.

In this configuration I am using a virtual machine named server1 to export a directory to server2. Oracle is not as lenient as myself and may have certain support requirements when it comes to dNFS servers but I just wanted to get started.

The export of the NFS mount is shown here:

Invoker Rights in Oracle Database 12c : Some more articles

Submitted by oraclebase on Wed, 2014-07-09 11:03

I wrote about the Code Based Access Control (CBAC) stuff in Oracle Database 12c a while back.

I’ve recently “completed the set” by looking at the INHERIT PRIVILEGES and BEQUEATH CURRENT_USER stuff for PL/SQL code and views respectively.

12c Index Like Table Statistics Collection (Wearing The Inside Out)

Submitted by Richard Foote on Wed, 2014-07-09 08:14

This change introduced in 12c has caught me out on a number of occasions. If you were to create a new table: And then populate it with a conventional insert: We find there are no statistics associated with the table until we explicitly collect them: But if we were to now create an index on this […]