Video : Create Table for Exchange With a Partitioned Table

In today’s video we demonstrate the CREATE TABLE … FOR EXCHANGE WITH TABLE feature, introduced in Oracle database 12.2.

The video is based on this article.

You can check out my other partitioning articles here.

The star of today’s video is Frits Hoogland and his son. This clip is from six years ago, and I don’t think Frits look any different today, but I’m guessing his son has changed a lot in that time. 🙂 Frits recently set sail for the land of Yugabyte. I hope he will come back to visit from time to time… 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Read-Only Partitions and Subpartitions in Oracle 12.2 Onward

In today’s video we’ll discuss read-only partitions and subpartitions, introduced in Oracle 12.2.

This is based on the following article.

You might find these useful too.

The star of today’s video is Chris Saxon of AskTom fame. You can check out his YouTube channel here.

Cheers

Tim…

Online Table Moves and Partitioning in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

A couple of articles have crept out over the last few days that relate to online operations on Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2). Both of them are pretty small in terms of what you have to do, but are pretty awesome in terms of impact, so I’m giving them the official thumbs-up! 🙂

The first one is about moving tables online.

I wonder if this was a 12.1 feature that got pulled? In 12.1 we got to move partitions and sub-partitions online, but being able to move a table as an online operation is great. Saves you having to mess around with DBMS_REDEFINITION for a bunch of tasks.

The second one is about converting non-partitioned tables to partitioned tables.

This is pretty cool too. For one, you can use a single command to do it now, rather than having to use EXCHANGE PARTITION or DBMS_REDEFINITION to do it. What’s more, it can be done online!

As I’ve said many times before, it’s these convenience new features that usually have a bigger impact on my day-to-day life than the big sexy features.

Cheers

Tim…

Partitioning Enhancements in Oracle Database 12c Release 1

I was planning to cover this subject in a single article, but it got a bit bulky, so I split it down into 6 little articles.

I’ve also created a links page to bring them all together.

I guess you could call it a list of nice-to-haves, rather than something revolutionary, but I’m sure someone will come back to me saying one of them has changed their life! 🙂

Cheers

Tim…