Some time ago one of my students asked me if temp segments are being written to flash disks on Exadata… Well I wasn’t sure 🙂 But recently I had some time to check it. Let’s create some query that will generate
I’ve wrote about privilege escalation with external tables in this post: https://blog.ora-600.pl/2014/12/23/simple-technics-of-privilege-escalation-part2-dbasysdba/ This time we will try to list all files withi
I had a pleasure to work with my colleagues from Oracle – Radosław Kut and Krzysztof Marciniak – at comparing the performance of In-Memory queries between Sparc M7, Intel® Xeon® X5670 and Intel® Xeon® E5-2699.
Thanks to Oracle I had a possibility to test the new Sparc M7 with DAX coprocessors to boost In-Memory performance. You can read about it here and here My first thought was – how to check if and when the DAX co
Let’s imagine the following situation – you have a table called EMPLOYEES_TMP which is a global temporary table with a variable number of rows – totally nondeterministic. And there is a query which runs very of
ORA-600 i IT School wspierają XXIV finał Wielkiej Orkiestry Świątecznej Pomocy. Nasze połączone siły dewelopersko-administratorskie przygotowały aplikację, za pomocą której będziecie mogli licytować złote serdu
At UKOUG Tech’15 (Super Sunday) there was a session called "12c: A Closer Look at the Multi-Process Multi-Threaded Model for Oracle on Linux/Unix" by Markus Flechtner. Since then I can’t stop thinking about the
Let’s check, why PRAGMA UDF makes execution faster, then regular function. C function responsible for calling a PL/SQL code from SQL is called "plsql_run":
I’ve already showed you, how to escalate privileges in Oracle Databases. https://blog.ora-600.pl/2013/04/02/privilege-escalation-in-oracle-11gr2-part1/ https://blog.ora-600.pl/2014/12/23/simple-technics-of-priv
I było tak, że 31 dnia miesiąca sierpnia roku 2015, spotkali się entuzjaści Wyroczni w posiadłości AVIVA. I było tak, że dzierżąc kufle – po brzegi browarem wypełnione – zasiadło wielu aby posłuchać kilku, któr
I’ve started the project called RICO – the tool, written in C++ for last resort data recovery. It can be used to extract data from corrupted datafiles and dump them in the form of text files. It is in the early
One of the new CBO features in database 12c is "sql plan directives". The main purpose of this functionality is to deliver better adaptive plans if object statistics does not reflect the reality. Quoting after