Several people asked me how much I changed in the second edition. The short answer is… A LOT. The main goals set for the revision of the book were the following: Add content about Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Database 12c Release 1. Remove content about Oracle9i and Oracle Database 10g Release 1. […]
Few days ago the second edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance was finally published. Today, I updated the pages on this site that provide information about the book. It goes without saying that the new pages cover the second edition. Hence, from here you can access the description, the table of contents, the forewords written by […]
After about four months without any speaking engagements, over the next three months I’ll have the opportunity to speak at several events. I’m looking forward to meet you at one of them! April 3, I’ll be in Baden-Dättwil to speak about “ASH Analytics” at an event organized by SOUG. Since this is a new presentation […]
The company I work for, Trivadis, is very pleased to organize, on the 10th and 11th of June, an outstanding seminar with top guest speakers in Zurich. This year’s focus will be on the Oracle query optimizer, also known as a cost-based optimizer (CBO). The query optimizer is not only one of the most complex […]
Today, while tuning a fairly complex query experiencing wrong cardinality estimates, I noticed something I was not aware of. Hence, I thought to write this short post to illustrate how to reproduce the problem I experienced… Create the test table (notice the correlation between the data of the two columns): SQL> CREATE TABLE t 2 […]
Yesterday, during the talk “The Query Optimizer in Oracle Database 12c – What’s New?” at OakTable World UK 2013, an attendee asked me an interesting question that can be summarized as follows: does ASH show the switch of execution plan that takes place for an adaptive plan? Since I didn’t know the answer, here are […]
Few days ago Oracle accepted my Oracle ACE Director nomination! In this short post I would like to thank the people that actively supported the nomination. Special thanks go to Yury Velikanov. When during the last Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco he discovered I was not part of the Oracle ACE program, he decided to […]
The aim of this post isn’t to explain what the “exadata mode” is. Hence, if you don’t know what it is, before continuing reading have a look to this post published on Kerry Osborne’s blog. The only thing I would like to add is that the “exadata mode” is available as of 11.2.0.4 or when […]
The values provided by the “parse count (total)” and “session cursor cache hits” statistics are subject to several bugs. And, what’s worse, for years Oracle didn’t care to fix it. This is my impression, at least. Then, when few weeks ago I read in the Oracle Support note 13837105.8 (Bug 13837105 – statistics “parse count […]
In the past (here and here) I already shared with you the scripts I used to download the documentation related to Oracle Database. The aim of this short post is to provide the script I just wrote for the latest version: 12c Release 1. download121.sh Happy download as well as happy reading! PS: it is […]