Oracle sometimes generates smaller archived redo logs than you might expect based on the size of the online redo logs. In this article, Jonathan Lewis explains how Oracle uses online redo logs and why there might be a discrepancy in the archived log size.… Read more
SQL Developer is a popular free tool for working with Oracle databases. In this article Srinivasan Suresh explains several features of SQL Developer that can make you more productive.… Read more
Oracle has been established as one of the top database systems used in enterprises throughout the world. In this article, Cynthia Dzikiti describes her career as an Oracle application developer and covers some of the benefits of Oracle.… Read more
Learning programming logic and syntax is just the beginning. In this article, David Njoku talks about how to debug and troubleshoot errors as a new developer.… Read more
Security is, or at least should be, the priority for any IT system. In this article, Cynthia Dzikiti discusses the security aspects of ERP systems and some of the techniques used to protect data.… Read more
There is often more than one way to write a query that returns the same results, but some methods may perform better than others. In this article, Ben Brumm discusses ten best practice when writing SQL code for Oracle. … Read more
This article was originally published on mikesmithers.wordpress.com. “You can’t have your cake and eat it!” This seems to be a regular refrain from the EU in the ongoing Brexit negotiations. They also seem to be a bit intolerant of “cherry picking”. I’ve never really understood the saying, “You can’t have your cake and eat it” – … Read more
Unit testing and even Test-Driven Development is possible for databases. In this article Samuel Nitsche makes the case for introducing unit tests to your database development, and suggests some lightweight ways to get started.… Read more
Most development teams have agreed upon some sort of naming convention as it typically increases the readability and comprehension of the source code. Defining these rules is one thing, but correctly and consistently applying them is another. Wouldn’t it be great if we were able to actually validate whether our team-specific naming rules have been applied the right way?… Read more
A microservice architecture can provide great benefits to certain types of applications that have pronounced troughs and peaks in demand, such as web-based shopping apps. With containerization, there is the promise of deploying containerized services in a matter of seconds to deal with demand. Has the Docker ecosystem now reached the level of maturity to allow this type of application to become standard practice?… Read more
I accidentally locked myself out of my house this evening, and so I had to climb up the wall like a burglar and clamber in through a bathroom window, while the neighbourhood kids all watched and giggled, probably taking secret photos to share on Snapchat or something. Embarrassing, yes, but what’s it got to do with Oracle? Well, the point… Read more
Oracle database, since its inception, has always used a very specific and unique architecture which served it very well. In earlier forms of this architecture, all components of the database were meant to work in a one-to-one mapping with each other. But from version 12c onwards, a completely new architecture has been introduced – Oracle Multitenant. In other words, from… Read more
In this sixth and final installment in this introductory series on JSON I’d like to revisit the question of generating JSON from your Oracle database. Cos it’s great to be able to consume a format; but if you can’t spit it out easily too you’ll probably want to look elsewhere. Easily, that’s the keyword in that sentence. In my previous… Read more
All databases stand on a tripod of datatypes: strings, numbers and dates. And so I’d imagine that by Day 2 or so of dabbling with Oracle you’d be starting to get reasonably comfortable with the VARCHAR2, NUMBER and TIMESTAMP data types. And that’s a good thing, familiarity with those three data types will take you a long way into a… Read more
PartitionedIndexEfficiency Although it is generally true that rebuilding an index represents a waste of time and resources, there nevertheless exist situations where degenerated indexes might benefit from reorganisation. When you think you are in such a situation, instead of shooting in the dark and rebuilding all indexes, you are better off finding and rebuilding only those indexes occupying more spac… Read more
Oracle RAC One Node, introduced in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2), is a single instance of an Oracle RAC-enabled database running on one node in a cluster. It lets you consolidate multiple databases onto a single cluster while providing high availability benefits of failover protection to the single instance databases. Oracle RAC One Node databases can be configured to…
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In the 3rd part of this series, I introduced you to the concept of the bind variables. We also learned their importance in regard to cursors, i.e. how with the presence of bind variables, cursor reparsing can be reduced significantly. But as is famously said in the world of performance tuning, there is nothing black or white: it’s all grey… Read more
All databases stand on a tripod of datatypes: strings, numbers and dates. And though they might dress them in fancy clothing – varchar2, clob, float, integer – strings are really just strings, and numbers are really just numbers. But dates — dates are interesting. In this article I’ll talk to you about dates, about time, and about how both ar… Read more
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