I recently observed that the total time taken to split an empty partition, in 10.2.0.5, has increased by many fold—i.e. from under 30 seconds to 60 minutes. SPLIT PARTITION operation is, simply, creating two new partitions and redistributing the rows from the partition being split into the two new partitions. Often one new partition contains …
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I needed an hash function, in Java, which is simple, practically less collision and provides a short alphanumeric or an unsigned number as hash for any string or text. I stumbled upon few blog posts that explain how Oracle SQL_ID and HASH_VALUE are calculated by database engine, concisely and elaborately; also implementations in Python and …
This just a short note to point out that the below SQL*Plus commands are deprecated as of Oracle 11g R2, but available in the current release of SQL*Plus for backward compatibility. The documentation states that this may only be available by setting the SQLPLUSCOMPATIBILITY variable in the future releases. You should modify scripts using obsolete …
This is just a short note the point out that RECORD option of TKPROF is extremely useful in recording and capturing the non-recursive SQL statements in the order of execution from the SQL trace file. I have not had a requirement to use it until—today—one of my developers lost the original test script used when …
SET TIMING—one of the most frequently used commands—displays timing statistics on each SQL command or PL/SQL block. What if you want to collect timing statistics for multiple group of statements? TIMING command becomes handy in such situation—one of things that I knew and have forgotten over time. It can be used to collect data to do …
I noticed a strange behavior—a SQL statement, which used to return no rows in the past, started returning rows in an environment where the test data set has not changed. I performed a code comparison and observed a difference in the order of a table in FROM clause. After looking through, I found a bug entry on MOS …
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Last fall, I posted a note about Oracle Database 11g Architecture and Background Processes. This post is just a short note to point out that last week, Oracle University has made Oracle Database 11g Interactive Quick Reference available to public for download; it is a flash application, available for offline use in compressed file (.ZIP) …
This is just a short note to point out that starting from Oracle database 11g Release 2, a command line utility, chopt (change option) is available to enable or disable a particular database feature; the tool is located under ORACLE_HOME/bin directory. Currently, you can enable or disable the following features using this utility: Oracle Data Mining RDBMS Files, …
The row source tree is the core of the execution plan. It contains the sequence of operations that the database performs to run the statement; each operation may have options associated with it. The operation in execution plan is also known as row source operator. If you look at the below example, TABLE ACCESS operation …
OVERLAPS predicate is a useful feature, which is not available in most SQL implementations that can help to determine whether the two periods overlap each other. If two periods overlap then the predicate evaluates to TRUE otherwise FALSE. Let us create a test table with three rows – one with overlapping dates, second with non-overlapping …