Oracle Cloud

  In a recent post on Invisible Automatic Indexes, I was puzzled by a couple of “oddities” in relation to some behaviour in the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud environments. The first one was how Oracle appeared to be creating Histograms on a much more regular basis than it had previously. As one can see in […]

In my previous post, I discussed how Automatic Indexing does not currently support creating an index based on a function or expression predicate, even if it’s an equality predicate. You must manually create the associated function-based index. However, if you have access to the application, there’s a better strategy when frequently searching on a function-based […]

I previously discussed how Automatic Indexing only currently supports Equality based predicates. The question I have today is does Automatic Indexing support function-based indexes? Let’s take a look. The below DAVID table has the key column NAME which is an effectively unique VARCHAR2 column: If we look at the current details of the table columns: […]

There have been a couple of “oddities” in relation to both Oracle Autonomous Databases and Automatic Indexing behaviour that I’ve seen frequently enough now (on Oracle 19.5.0.0.0) to make it worth a quick blog article. The following is a simple test case that highlights both these issues. I’ll begin with a basic table, that has […]

In my previous post in this series, I discussed out Automatic Indexing currently does not consider Non-Equality predicates. Automatic Indexing will index columns based only on Equality predicates. So how does Oracle handle the scenario when an SQL has a mixture of both Equality and Non-Equality predicates? I’ll begin by creating two very similar tables, […]

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A few days ago Oracle announced the APEX Application Development Service on Oracle Cloud.

  I’ve been waiting a while before posting a series on the various limitations associated with Automatic Indexing, in order to see how the feature matures over time. The following have all been re-tested post 1 January 2021 on the Autonomous ATP Database Cloud service, using Oracle Database version 19.5.0.0.0. In the Oracle Documentation (including […]

In my first post on Automatic Indexing on Partitioned Tables, I discussed how Automatic Indexing (AI) can now create a Non-Partitioned index if deemed the most effective indexing structure (this wasn’t supported when AI was initially released). A Non-Partitioned index is indeed likely the most efficient indexing structure if the underlying table has many partitions […]

Device name persistence is an important concept for everyone deploying the Oracle database. In this little series I’ll show how you can achieve device name persistence with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and block storage. I am hoping to share future parts for Azure and AWS.

In the example I’m going to prepare a cloud VM for the installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19.9.0. To do so I have created a number of block devices in addition to the boot volume:

• One block volume to contain the Oracle binaries
• Two block volumes to be used as +DATA
• Two more block volumes for +RECO

This is going to be a playground environment, the block volume size is unrealistically small. You will certainly need larger block devices for a production environment. Additionally there is most likely a cost associated with creating these resources, be careful!

In this little series, I’m going to discuss how Automatic Indexing works in relation to Partitioning. I’ve discussed Indexing and Partitioning many times previously and how Oracle has various options when indexing a partitioned table: Non-Partitioned Index Globally Partitioned Index Locally Partitioned Index So the question(s) are how does Automatic Indexing handle scenarios with partitioned […]