The aim of this post is to point out an issue (bug?) that I recently discovered. But, before talking about it, I need to go through a rather long introduction about the state of SQL plan directive (SPD). As of version 12.1.0.2, an SPD has two state information. You can see both of them through […]
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 […]
In a previous post I described a situation where the creation of an extension, independently of whether it’s carried out manually by a person or automatically by the database engine, can lead to the invalidation of PL/SQL objects. In this second post on that subject, I describe, with the help of an example (I love […]
UPDATE 2015-12-18: As metioned by Bryn Llewellyn in this tweet, the invalidation I describe below is caused by bug 19450314. A patch for it is available here for several releases (e.g. it is available for 12.1.0.1.0, 12.1.0.2.1 or 12.1.0.2.13, but not for 12.1.0.2.0). I successfully tested it on 12.1.0.1.0. UPDATE 2016-11-08: The patch related to […]
SQL plan directives are a new concept introduced in version 12.1. Their purpose is to help the query optimizer cope with misestimates. To do so, they store in the data dictionary information about the predicates that cause misestimates. Simply put, the purpose of SQL plan directives is to instruct the database engine to either use […]