Category: Video

Video : Online Segment Shrink for Tables : Free Unused Space

In today’s video we’ll give a demonstration of how to shrink tables that contain a lot of free space. As I say in the video, this is not something you should do regularly. It’s only necessary if you’ve done some drastic one-off maintenance, like a large data purge maybe.

There are a few articles this relates to.

The star of today’s video is Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, who is returning to her Oracle roots, but on Azure. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Returning REF CURSORs from PL/SQL : Functions, Procedures and Implicit Statement Results

Today’s video is a demonstration of returning REF CURSORs from PL/SQL using functions, procedures and implicit statement results.

I was motivated to do this after a conversation with my boss. He’s from a .NET and SQL Server background, and was a bit miffed about not being able to use a SELECT to pass out variable values from a procedure, like you can in T-SQL. So I piped up and said you can using Implicit Statement Results and another myth was busted. I guess most PL/SQL developers don’t use this, and I don’t either, but you should know it exists so you can be a smart arse when situations like this come up. 🙂

The video is based on these articles.

The star of today’s video is Bryn Llewellyn of PL/SQL fame, and more recently Yugabyte.

Cheers

Tim…

Video : SQLcl and Liquibase : Automating Your SQL and PL/SQL Deployments

In today‘s video we’ll give a quick demonstration of applying changes to the database using the Liquibase implementation in SQLcl.

The video is based on this article.

You might also find these useful. The secure external password store is a good way to make connections with SQLcl. If you support a variety of database engines, you may prefer to use the regular Liquibase client.

The star of today’s video is Steve Karam from Delphix. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Secure External Password Store

Today’s video demonstrates how to use a Secure External Password Store to hold database credentials in a client wallet.

The video is based on this old article.

The star of today’s video is John King. This is actually his second staring role on the channel. The other one was called Making Dreams Come True: Video for a Superfan. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Multitenant : Online Move of Datafiles in CDBs and PDBs

Today’s video is a quick look at online datafile moves in container databases (CDBs) and pluggable databases (PDBs).

If you’ve used this functionality in a non-CDB database, it’s going to look familiar, with a PDB-specific gotcha.

These articles discus moving and renaming files.

I’ve added this to my Multitenant YouTube playlist.

The star of today’s video is Todd Trichler, but he’s having the share the limelight with the top of Roel Hartman‘s head, and brief clips of John King and Debra Lilley on the video screen behind him.

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Oracle : Silent Installation and Database Creation

In today’s video we’ll take a look at the two sections of a database build that people often use a GUI for. The software installation using the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), and the database creation using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).

I recently wrote a post called Why no GUI installations anymore? I was surprised at how much comeback I got from that. This video isn’t a tutorial, but more of a taster to let people who are new to the subject see what they could be doing, rather than clicking buttons. 🙂

The video is based on the following articles.

If you want to see more a complete example of an automated build that uses these, you can check out this video.

If you want to get your hands dirty with automated builds, and you really should, you can play around with my Vagrant and Docker builds here.

There are lots of other people with builds on GitHub, including Oracle, so just play around with as many as you like. 🙂

The star of today’s video is David Hollenberger. I think he was a bit surprised when some random guy asked him for a random video clip. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Multitable Inserts

Today’s video takes a look at using Multitable Inserts, which allow an INSERT … SELECT to create rows in multiple destination tables. If you’ve not heard of them, don’t be surprised as they are really new, having only been introduced in Oracle 9i. 🙂

The video is based on this article.

The stars of today’s video are a pitch-perfect choir made up of Debra Lilley, Scott Spendolini, Danny Bryant and Michael Rainey, who are collectively the hottest ticket in town. I have it on good authority they can be booked for weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals. Incidentally, all four have made appearances in previous videos, which I think makes this their official comeback performance.

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Decoupling to Improve Performance

In today’s video we demonstrate how to cheat your way to looking like you’ve improved performance using decoupling.

This was based on the following article.

This came up in conversation a few days ago, so I thought it was worth resurrecting this demo. It doesn’t really matter what tech stack you use, the idea is still the same.

The star of today’s video is Logan Rosenstein, formerly of OTN, and now working for Zignal Labs, and author of Building Towers by Rolling Dice.

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Schema Only Accounts in Oracle Database 18c Onward

Today’s video is a demonstration of schema only accounts, introduced in Oracle Database 18c.

This is based on the following articles.

The star of today’s video is Paul Vallee, of Pythian and Tehama fame.

Cheers

Tim…

Video : Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) : SQL Developer Web

Today’s video is a quick run through SQL Developer Web, introduced in Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) 19.4.

For those that prefer the written word, this is based on the following article.

You can find all my other ORDS content here.

The reluctant star of today’s video is Tuomas Pystynen, who was held at gunpoint whilst filming this. 🙂

Cheers

Tim…