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18c XE is live!

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Sat, 2018-10-20 18:37

Just a quick post because this is perhaps what I think is one of the biggest game changers for the Oracle Database.

18c Express Edition (18x XE) is now available for general use. For those people with experience with 11g XE, this might not seem to be a big deal, but there is one crucial difference.

Unlike 11g XE, the new version has virtually no restrictions on the functionality offered by the database. And yes, we are talking Enterprise Edition features and options here.

So if you want to explore:

  • In-memory
  • Multi-tenant
  • Partitioning
  • Text

etc etc etc, the list goes on, then these will all be there in 18c XE for you.

And the product installs with just a couple of commands.

A new blog post on the Databases at CERN blog about the new 18.3 installation with .rpm:

Submitted by Franck Pachot on Sat, 2018-10-20 12:46

A new blog post on the Databases at CERN blog about the new 18.3 installation with .rpm:

https://db-blog.web.cern.ch/blog/franck-pachot/2018-10-rpm-install-oracle-database-18c

An .rpm to install Oracle Database 18c

add_colored_sql

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Fri, 2018-10-19 15:08

The following request appeared recently on the Oracle-L mailing list:

I have one scenario related to capturing of sql statement in history table..  Like dba_hist_sqltext capture the queries that ran for 10 sec or more..  How do I get the sql stmt which took less time say in  millisecond..  Any idea pleae share.

OpenWorld Wednesday – step right up!

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Fri, 2018-10-19 01:22

If you’ve read my two previous posts on the OpenWorld schedule, you’re probably expecting a huge long list of sessions to pique your interest.

But no! There’s only ONE you need on your list Smile

The Fast Lane to Database Success [TIP4094]
Connor McDonald, Developer Advocate for SQL, Oracle
Wednesday, Oct 24, 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3009

Little things worth knowing: OSWatcher Analyser Dashboard

Submitted by martin.bach on Thu, 2018-10-18 08:18

I have written a few articles about Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) in the recent past. As you may recall from these posts, a more comprehensive TFA version than the one provided with the installation media is available from My Oracle Support (MOS for short). As part of this version, you get a lot of useful, additional tools, including OSWatcher. I love OSWatcher, simply because it gives me insights that would be very hard to get with sar for example. SAR tends to be the least common denominator on most (proper) operating systems and it’s better than nothing, but please read on and let me explain why I like OSWatcher so much.

Feel free to head back to my earlier posts if you like to get some more details about “stock TFA” and “MOS TFA”. These are terms I coined by the way, you won’t find them in a MOS search.

Problem Solving

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Wed, 2018-10-17 16:11

Here’s a little question that popped up on the Oracle-L list server a few days ago:

I am facing this issue running this command in 11.2.0.4.0 (also in 12c R2 I got the same error)

SQL> SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('1970-01-01 00:00:00.0','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF') + NUMTODSINTERVAL(2850166802000/1000, 'SECOND') FROM DUAL;
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('1970-01-01 00:00:00.0','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF') + NUMTODSINTERVAL(2850166802000/1000, 'SECOND') FROM DUAL
ORA-01873: a precisão precedente do intervalo é pequena demais

 

How do you go about finding out what’s going on ? In my case the first thing is to check the translation the error message (two options):

Compressed LOB–my table got bigger?

Submitted by connor_mc_d on Wed, 2018-10-17 07:37

We had an interesting question on AskTOM the other day about LOB compression. Someone was very concerned that after applying compression to the LOBS in the column of their table, the table actually got larger! Cue much confusion and panic, but after a little exploration, the explanation was pretty simple.

By default, when you create a LOB column in a table, the default storage definition is ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW. As per the documentation:

If you enable storage in row, then the LOB value is stored in the row (inline) if its length is less than approximately 4000 bytes minus system control information

Ansible tips’n’tricks: assessing your runtime environment

Submitted by martin.bach on Tue, 2018-10-16 20:36

One thing that I frequently need to do is test for a certain condition, and fail if it is not met. After all, I want to write those playbooks in a safe way.

Here is an example: I need to ensure that my playbook only runs on Oracle Linux 7. How can I do this? Ansible offers a shell and a command module (make sure you read the notes in the command module documentation!), so I could simply write something testing for the output of, let’s say, /etc/os-release.

This is totally possible, although I believe it’s a bit messy and there is a more elegant way requiring far less coding. Ansible maintains a whole raft of variables it gathers when you run a playbook. Here is an example (I am again using the “debug” stdout_callback as described in my earlier blog posts):

Ignorance is Bliss, Until it Isn’t

Submitted by dbakevlar on Mon, 2018-10-15 21:24

My blog was hacked last week, deliberately and maliciously.  I was hacked because my lacking knowledge in the area of website management and saved by my control issues as a Database Administrator.  It was a valuable lesson to learn in regards to being a woman in technology and new technical skills.

Faking Histograms

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Mon, 2018-10-15 13:37

This is a short index of articles I’ve written on how to create the different types of histogram that the optimizer uses: