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Aug 14
Reconstruct Standby DB
After a recent power outage at our DR site, I discovered that a standby there had stopped applying logs. Apparently in the archived redo logs was a transaction which grew a datafile but the disk at the standby site did not have enough disk space to allow that transaction to complete. So the standby terminated …
Aug 03
User-defined Routine with DBMS_STATS, Part II
I had a previous post about user defined routines with DBMS_STATS. After some more digging, I determined how this works. I have some data in my database that is stored in a User Defined Type. If you have a user-defined type, you can associate your user-defined stats collection routine with the Oracle Data Cartridge Interface …
Aug 03
Facebook Users and SQL Server 2012
When Facebook (FB) had its IPO in May, it was said that Facebook had almost 1 billion users worldwide. When this figure was floated, I was skeptical. First off, the world population is estimated to be almost 7 billion people. That means that approximately 1 in 7 people use Facebook. So lets stop and think …
Jul 23
User-defined Routine with DBMS_STATS
I’ve been having a problem with a 3rd party application. Whenever I run DBMS_STATS on the application schema my database will peg the CPU and will run for days without completion until I cancel it. The part that took me forever to figure out is the SQL statement that is consuming all of the CPU …
Jul 12
July Reading
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Jul 11
MOS Flash Dies
The death of Flash for Metalink Oracle Support (or My Oracle Support if you prefer) is near. Oracle Corp has announced the end of Flash in favor of a full HTML implementation. I’ve been using the HTML interface for a while now and it works well for me. There have only been three types of …
Jul 09
My 11g Optimizer Stats Job Quit On Me – Fixed
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Jun 27
My 11g Optimizer Stats Job Quit On Me
So I’ve been trying to track down why I seem to have bad stats in one of my production 11.2.0.2 databases. It seems like once I week I get a call from a developer about a query performing poorly and the resolution normally is to use DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS to update the optimizer statistics and the query …
May 22
Windows Agents for EM 12c
I have inherited some legacy Oracle on Windows systems which I do have to manage from time to time. I was excited about Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control until I found out that I had to wait for the Windows Agent to be released. My wait is over and I can now use 12c Cloud …
May 15
ISS-Earth Flyover at Night
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