Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
In today’s video we’ll demonstrate how to use virtual columns, introduced in Oracle 11g.
The video is based on this article.
The star of today’s video is Scott Wesley of APEX fame. I think he’s into gardening too, because he has a blog about grass or something… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll demonstrate how to convert a CentOS installation to an Oracle Linux installation.
The video is based on this post.
The star of today’s video is Dan Norris, in a clip from a previous OpenWorld, which seems like a long distant memory now.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. I know I said there would be no more videos this year, but this was very much “of the moment”, so I thought it was worth doing.
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…
In today’s video we’ll discuss Invisible Indexes, introduced in Oracle 11g.
The video is based on this article.
The star of today’s video is Chris Muir, who was instrumental in me becoming a presenter. He invited me down to Australia to speak at a couple of AUSOUG events, which were the first proper conferences I ever presented at.
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss the Adaptive Cursor Sharing feature, introduced in Oracle 11g Release 1.
This video is based on the following article.
Here are some other things you might want to check out.
The star of todays video is Franck Pachot, who is clearly looking for an exit. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss the CURSOR_SHARING parameter, which determines how the database handles statements containing literal values.
The video is based on this article.
You may also find these useful.
The star of today’s video is Toon Koppelaars from the Real World Performance Group at Oracle, and of #SmartDB fame. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
PS. I’ve already noticed I say “after login”, when I mean “after logon”. 🙂
In today’s video we’ll discuss how using bind variables in your database applications can improve performance, and protect against SQL injection attacks.
This videos is based on a demo I do in one of my presentations, which was itself based on these articles.
The star of today’s video is Bjoern Rost, of asymmetric man thong fame. In his past life, Bjoern was one of the many people who got me through a speaking tour in one piece. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we discuss a change to the old DBMS_JOB scheduler from 19c onward.
This video is based on the following article.
You may find these useful as well.
The star of today’s video is Liron Amitzi, who took a break from shopping to film this. You might notice some familiar faces in the background and on the video screen to the side… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss Scalable Sequences, which were documented for the first time in Oracle 18c.
The video is based on this article.
The star of today’s video is David Peak, who is now working on the Oracle Pandemic Response Systems. This video is a throwback to a hotel we stayed in at São Paulo a few years back.
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss how to build a 2-node RAC setup using Vagrant.
This video is based on the OL8 19c RAC build, but it’s similar to that of the OL7 19c RAC build also. If you don’t have access to the patches from MOS, stick with the OL7 build, as it will work with the 19.3 base release. The GitHub repos are listed here.
If you need some more words to read, you can find descriptions of the builds here, as well as a beginners guide to Vagrant.
The video is a talk through of using the build, not an explanation of each individual step in the build, as that would be a really long video. If you just want a RAC to play with, run the build and you’ll have one. If you want to learn about the steps involved in doing a RAC build, read the scripts that make up the build. Please don’t ask for a GUI step through of a build or I’ll be forced to ask you to read Why no GUI installations anymore? 🙂
The star of today’s video is Neil Chandler, who seems to be doing a bit of plumbing! 🙂
Cheers
Tim…