In the last days, I am running a number of tests based on the TPC-DS benchmark against Oracle’s Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service (ADWC). One of the first thing I did is of course to create the TPC-DS schema and populate it. The aim of this blog post is to share some observations related to […]
The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC) service provides a Service Console that can be used to monitor the service activity and to carry out a small number of administration tasks (e.g. changing some resource management rules). The documentation specifically says to use the ADMIN user to login. But, actually, any unlocked database user having the […]
The Appendix A of the Using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud guide describes the DBMS_CLOUD package. Unfortunately, it documents only a subset of the subroutines. And, for some of them, the description could also be enhanced. Therefore, while I was testing all the subroutines the DBMS_CLOUD package provides, I took a number of notes. By […]
The aim of this post is not to explain how the APPROX_MEDIAN function works (you find basic information in the documentation) but to show you the results of a test case I ran to assess how well it works. Here’s what I did… I started in the Oracle Database Public Cloud an instance of version […]
There are situations where approximate results are superior than exact results. Typically, this is the case when two conditions are met. First, when the time and/or resources needed to produce exact results are much higher than for approximate results. Second, when approximate results are good enough. Approximate results are for example superior in case of […]
The aim of this post is to summarize the knowledge about the 12.1 and 12.2 adaptive query optimizer configuration that, as far as I know, is spread over a number of (too many) different sources. First of all, let’s shortly review which adaptive query optimization features exist: Adaptive plans, which are only available in Enterprise […]
Today I started having a look to the Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service announced last week at Oracle OpenWorld. Note that since the amount of resources provided (in summary, 1 OCPU, 20 or 50 GB of database storage) is very limited, in general, in my opinion that service will only be useful for functional […]