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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Few days ago, in the post entitled Long Parses, I pointed out that stored outlines can be used to shorten the parse time by restricting the number of execution plans considered by the query optimizer. As of Oracle Database 11g, stored outlines are deprecated in favor of SQL plan baselines. Therefore, someone might think that […]