RAC Attack! was another great success at C15LV
The RAC Attack - install a RAC in your own laptop - is a great success at Las Vegas. The idea is to help people follow the RAC Attack cookbook which is available at:...
View ArticleCloning a PDB from a standby database
Great events like IOUG Collaborate is a good way to meet experts we know through blogs, twitter,etc. Yesterday evening, with nice music in the background, I was talking with Leighton Nelson about...
View ArticleYesterday's AWR Straight to the Goal
Yesterday I was a speaker at Collaborate15 and did my presentation about reading an AWR report. That was great. Many people (and not enough seats). Here are some aswers about questions that came later.
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QlikView – Load data in QlikView / QlikSence – Best practice and trick
In this blog, I will give you some best practices and tricks when you are loading table to generate your data. But before, I will review the different ways to load data in a QlikView or QlikSense...
View ArticleSQL Monitor report little improvement in 12c
This is a very short post about something I though I had already blogged about. I like SQL Monitoring active reports. The are graphical, and still very light. There is only one thing I don't like about...
View ArticleC15LV: Nothing to BLOG About - Think Again
Before going to the airport to come back in Europe, the las session I assisted at IOUG Collaborate is a panel: Nothing to BLOG About - Think Again Some famous bloggers were there to help, motivate and...
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SQL Server - Change Management: list all updates
I am looking to have all SQL Server updates on a server including Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and other fixes like we can see in the uninstall panel from Windows.
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Weblogic ThreadPool has stuck threads
In Weblogic it is common to have this warning: ThreadPool has stuck threads. Here we will see a way to determine which can be the cause. When monitoring Weblogic you can notice that time to time your...
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D2 xPlore search on apostrophes
When using the D2 searches you are likely to go into trouble regarding special characters such as apostrophes. The goal in this blog is to show you how to parameterize new special character searches....
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Successful launch dbi services Zürich
Yesterday evening dbi services (headquarters in Delémont) launched officially its third branch in Zürich (Beside Basel and Lausanne). Five years after its take off, the "Oracle Database Partner of Year...
View ArticleALTER TABLE INMEMORY
In-Memory Column Store is amazing. It brings very good performance to full table scans. I't easy: just 'flip a switch' and you accelerate all reporting queries on your table, without thinking about...
View ArticleList listeners and services from the instance
Want to know all your listeners - including scan listeners, and the services it listens for? It is possible from the instance, with the - undocumented - view V$LISTENER_NETWORK which is there since 11.2
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Azure DocumentDB: Microsoft goes to NoSQL
Azure DocumentDB is a documentary database service and as like its name suggests, it is a Microsoft Azure Cloud service. Since the last summer, developers have access to this new service, and now it is...
View ArticleA migration pitfall with ALL COLUMN SIZE AUTO
When you migrate, you should be prepared to see some execution plan changing. That's not new. But here I'll show you a case where you have several bad execution plans because lot of histograms are...
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SQL Server Tips: How to know if In-Memory Feature is supported by your server?
A customer asks me, how to know if In-Memory Feature is supported by my SQL Server server? An easy way is to check the edition, version etc. but now, you have directly a property for that. On msdn...
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getting started with postgres plus advanced server (1) - setting up ppas
I did several posts around postgresql and postgres plus advanced server in the past. What is missing is a beginners guide on how to get postgres plus advanced server up and running including a solution...
View Articlegetting started with postgres plus advanced server (2) – setting up a backup...
The first post in this series explained how to get ppas installed on a linux system. Now that the database cluster is up and running we should take care immediately about backup and recovery. For this...
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Windows Server Next, AKA Windows Server 2016!
The first technical preview of the future version of Windows Server was, since last October, available (here) and a second one with more new features should be available in May. The final version which...
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Using Windows 2012 R2 & dynamic witness feature with minimal configurations -...
I wrote a blog post some time ago about using a file share witness with a minimal windows failover cluster configuration that consists of two cluster nodes. In this blog post, I told I was reluctant to...
View ArticleVariations on 1M rows insert (1): bulk insert
This blog is the first one of a series about inserting 1 million rows. Do you have an idea about the time it takes? The idea came from another project, about NoSQL databases, but I'll focus on Oracle...
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