Blog Post: Some Interesting New features in Oracle Database 12.2 – Part II
Oracle Database 12c Release 2 has been released on the Oracle Database Cloud. We are going through some interesting features of this new 12.2 release, such as things that have been glossed over in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Toad Explain Plan Advanced options
I have used the Toad explain plan advanced options to show SQL bind variable content for a while. I want to show you how to get this advanced information when doing SQL tuning with Toad. When tuning...
View ArticleWiki Page: External Tables
by Michael McLaughlin Oracle Database 9 i introduced external tables. You can create external tables to load plain text files by using Oracle SQL*Loader. Alternatively, you can create external tables...
View ArticleBlog Post: Explicit Semantic Analysis in Oracle 12.2c Database
A new Oracle Data Mining algorithm in the Oracle 12.2c Database is called Explicit Semantic Analysis. [ The following examples are built using Oracle Data Miner 4.2 (SQL Developer 4.2) and the Oracle...
View ArticleBlog Post: 12.2: Avoid hard-coding maximum length of VARCHAR2 (and more)
Starting with Oracle Database 12 c Release 2 (12.2), we can now use static expressions* where previously only literal constants were allowed. Here are some examples (also available in this LiveSQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: OBIEE Oracle Support Notes - Useful One.
A list of Information Centers: Note 1378677.2 - Information Center: Enterprise Performance Management and BI Index (EPM/BI) Note 1349989.2 - Information Center: Installing and Configuring Oracle...
View ArticleBlog Post: Licensing Data Recovery Environments
Oracle provides a number of Specialty information documents on licensing at this link: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/specialty-topics/index.html Out of these, the Licensing Data Recovery...
View ArticleWiki Page: Consolidation Planning for the Cloud - Part VI
by Porus Homi Havewala We introduced the concept of Consolidation Planning in the previous parts of this article series. Part V was here . This is Part VI. Consolidating to Virtual Machines In the same...
View ArticleWiki Page: Consolidation Planning for the Cloud - Part V
By Porus Homi Havewala We introduced the concept of Consolidation Planning in the previous parts of this article series. Part IV was here . This is Part V. Click on the Destinations tab. This is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c R2 configuration on Win 2008 R2...
Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 13cR2 configuration on a Win 2008 R2 was stopping at 78% completion while performing the BI Publisher Configuration. Apparently, the problem exists pre 13cR2 as well....
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle Data Integrator repository is not accessible.
When trying to access to the http://hostname:9704/biacm the following warning appeared on the Dashboard :- Oracle Data Integrator repository is not accessible. Possible causes: Bad user credentials...
View ArticleWiki Page: GROUP BY ISSUE
GROUP BY ISSUE Author JP Vijaykumar Oracle DBA Date Jan 4th 2017 --Recently I worked on an issue using group by clause. --To simulate the issue, created a table and populated it with data. drop table...
View ArticleBlog Post: next OUG Ireland Meet-up on 12th Janiary
Our next OUG Ireland Meet-up with be on Thursday 12th January, 2017. The theme for this meet up is DevOps and How to Migrate to the Cloud. Come along on the night here about these topics and how...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to solve user errors with Oracle Flashback 12cR2 and its...
How to solve user errors with Oracle Flashback 12cR2 and its enhancements By Deiby Gómez Introduction: Flashback is a technology introduced in Oracle Database 10g to provide fixes for user errors. For...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Most Important Tool for SQL Tuning
SQLT is a tool that collects comprehensive information on all aspects of a SQL performance problem. SQL tuning experts know that EXPLAIN PLAN is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg but the fact is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Nueva categoría de iconos en la versión de Apex 5.1 - Font Apex
Apex 5.1 viene ahora con un gran conjunto de iconos, tanto que nos hacía falta para nuestras aplicaciones!. Estos iconos están contenidos en una fuente llamada Font Apex y tiene una gran variedad de...
View ArticleBlog Post: Kill Databump job that running inside Database
even if you interrupt data bump job on shell therefore you have to do the following :- as / as sysdba run the below query : select * from dba_datapump_jobs After checking the status of each one, run...
View ArticleBlog Post: Toad Tips and Techniques
Toad Tips and Techniques Hi, 2017 is upon us. Toad ventures into another year! Toad can do so many things but I think people sometimes forget the little things that Toad has to offer. Let’s start with...
View ArticleBlog Post: Unable to perform initial elastic configuration on Exadata X6
I had the pleasure to deploy another Exadata in the first week of 2017 and got my first issue this year. As we know starting with Exadata X5, Oracle introduced the concept of Elastic Configuration....
View ArticleBlog Post: Database Vault: Realm violation for GRANT on RESOURCE
A friend wrote: “I enabled Database Vault (explained here ) in my database. Now the management wants me to create a new user with connect as well as resource privileges. “However, when I connect as a...
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