Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
In today’s video we demonstrate attribute clustering, introduced on Oracle database 12.1.
The video is based on this article.
The star of today’s video is Francesco Tisiot, who seems to have some aversion to putting pineapple on pizza. Why anyone would ask an Italian about pizza is beyond me… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we demonstrate partial indexes for partitioned tables, introduced in Oracle database 12.1.
The video is based on this article.
The star of today’s video is Carry Millsap, who is being lead astray by a very naughty James Morle.
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’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 Resource Manager allows us to manage the disk I/O (IOPS, MBPS) usage in PDBs. This can be useful to stop a small number of PDBs using all disk IOPS and/or bandwidth on the server.
The video is based on the following article.
You might also find these useful.
The star of the today’s video is my dad Graham Wood, who is now living a life of leisure. Unfortunately the travel restrictions mean I won’t be able to visit him this year. 🙁
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss how Resource Manager allows us to manage the memory usage in PDBs. This can be useful to stop a small number of PDBs using all memory assigned to the instance.
This video was based on this article.
You might also find these useful.
The star of today’s video is Emanuel Oliveira. He wanted his clip to go on a video about machine learning, but I suggested I may not be the guy to do that… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss how Resource Manager can control CPU usage in PDBs using the CPU_COUNT and CPU_MIN_COUNT parameters. Oracle call this Dynamic CPU Scaling. This can be useful to stop a small number of PDBs using all CPU resources assigned to the instance.
This video is based on the following article.
Most of this information was in my instance caging article, but I’ve moved it into this separate article now.
You might also find these useful.
The star of today’s video is Bailey. He has a human called Connor McDonald. I suspect Bailey got is human to voice the video…
Cheers
Tim…
In today’s video we’ll discuss instance caging to manage CPU usage. This can be useful when we are trying to consolidate multiple instances on a single server.
This video is based on the following article.
The star of today’s video is the beard belonging to Victor Torres. I feel totally inadequate with my patchy stubble… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…