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Automation for DBA - Ansible part 1

Submitted by pioro on Wed, 2015-09-30 17:36
Hello,

In this post I would like to move forward with software provisioning and configuration. In my last post I covered a ways to build a "core VM" and now it's a time to add some software and configuration to it.

There are couple of automation tools, which can be used for that task like Puppet, Chef or Ansible to name a few. The latter one - Ansible - is my favorite, cause in my opinion it has shortest learning curve and also doesn't require any agents on the remote servers.

Automation for DBA - Ansible part 1

Submitted by pioro on Wed, 2015-09-30 17:36
Hello,

In this post I would like to move forward with software provisioning and configuration. In my last post I covered a ways to build a "core VM" and now it's a time to add some software and configuration to it.

There are couple of automation tools, which can be used for that task like Puppet, Chef or Ansible to name a few. The latter one - Ansible - is my favorite, cause in my opinion it has shortest learning curve and also doesn't require any agents on the remote servers.

Estimate_percent

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Wed, 2015-09-30 17:10

Here’s a live one from OTN – here are a couple of extracts from the problem statement:

We’re experiencing an issue where it seems that the query plan changes from day to day for a particular procedure that runs once a night.
It’s resulting in a performance variance of 10 second completion time vs 20 minutes (nothing in between).
It started occurring about 2 months ago and now it’s becoming more prevalent where the bad query plan is coming up more often.
I noticed that the query plans vary for a simple query.
We do run gather statistics every night. (DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS (ownname=>sys_context( ‘userenv’, ‘current_schema’ ), estimate_percent => 1);)

The query and two execution plans look like this:

What To Do at OOW15 (Social & Serious)?

Submitted by mwidlake on Wed, 2015-09-30 11:27

I’m going to OOW15 this year, my first Oracle Open World in 11 years I think. And despite the Prom Queen rejecting all my offerings, I will actually be sneaking in a presentation – which I am very happy about.

Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards : Spread the Love!

Submitted by oraclebase on Wed, 2015-09-30 08:57

You’ve probably already heard about the Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards, Steven Feuerstein wrote about them here, but this is just a quick reminder to get your votes in.

This year there are five categories to vote for:

How the log writer and foreground processes work together on commit.

Submitted by fritshoogland on Tue, 2015-09-29 22:00

(warning: this is a rather detailed technical post on the internal working of the Oracle database’s commit interactions between the committing foreground processes and the log writer)

After the Trivadis Performance days I was chatting to Jonathan Lewis. I presented my Profiling the log writer and database writer presentation, in which I state the foreground (user/server) process looks at the commit SCN in order to determine if its logbuffer contents are written to disk by the logwriter(s). Jonathan suggested looking deeper into this matter, because looking at the commit SCN might not the way it truly works.

Master Notes

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Tue, 2015-09-29 18:52

MoS has a number of “Master Note” documents which pop up from time to time while I’m checking for known problems or solutions; they get extended from time to time (and, conversely, link to some articles which are clearly no longer relevant to current versions). This is just a tidied up list of a few of the master notes that I’ve jotted down over time. The Data Dictionary overview appeared in my daily “Hot Topics” report today, and that prompted me to publish the list I’d got so far.

Delphix Express installation

Submitted by khailey on Tue, 2015-09-29 17:07

A couple of blog post ago I announced that there is now a free version of Delphix.  Here is a little more information about the installation of Delphix Express.

To get a copy of Delphix Express go to

and put “Express” for your title and I’ll send you the download info.

Delphix Express

Delphix Express is a free version of Delphix limited to 25 GB of managed storage and 1 vCPU. Delphix Express is set up for small projects and not optimized for high throughput nor performance testing.

Landshark

Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux 6 and 7 using NFS

Submitted by oraclebase on Tue, 2015-09-29 16:39

linux-tuxFollowing on from the last post, I’ve brought my NFS RAC stuff up to date also.

I noticed I had not done a RAC install using NFS on Oracle Linux 6, so I threw that in for good measure too. :)

Saving XML documents from an Oracle database

Submitted by marco on Tue, 2015-09-29 13:46

A colleague of mine asked about the several ways of saving XML content, I knew,…