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Oracle 19C New Feature Availability

15/02/2019 Leave a comment

trump-exasperated Since Oracle Open World 2018, Oracle have been trumpetting a few cool new features in the Oracle 19C database, the headline two for administrators being “Automatic Indexing” and “Real-Time Statistics“.

With the release of Oracle 19.2 on Exadata (on-premises – not yet on Cloud!) this week, we also got the documentation released which allow us to answer a very important question: on which platforms will we be able to use these 2 (and other) new awesome features. We may not like the answers – Oracle has decreed that we cannot have them on-premises for SE2, Enterprise Edition or on an ODA.

This is confined purely to Exadata on-prem and the cloud offerings. That’s it. There are no technical reasons why this should be the case – it’s just code – so the restrictions can only be marketing-based (like Hybrid Columnar Compression).

I’m disappointed, but it does mean that the over 80% of Oracle database clients still not living in the cloud should continue to need that aspect of my services!

Oracle Factoring

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Filed under Administration, oracle Tagged with 19c, automatic, features, indexing, new, oracle, real-time, statistics

Oracle SQL Monitor not monitoring my SQL

22/01/2019 Leave a comment

I needed to monitor a SQL statement in 11.2.0.3 (the limits mentioned below are the same in 12.1, 12.2, 18.4 and 19C) to determine what is was doing and why it was slow. sql_monitor

Usually I would use SQL Monitor [NOTE: You need to license the Oracle Tuning Pack to use SQL Monitor] for this but the SQL was not appearing in there, despite running for over 5 seconds, and being a parallel SQL (both of which qualify to be included in SQL Monitor). So I asked Twitter why, and thought I’d share the output here.

https://twitter.com/ChandlerDBA/status/1075692070952677376

It was nailed immediately by Jonathan Lewis, with added help from Ivica Arsov. (thank you!)

There is a hidden parameter “_sqlmon_max_planlines” which states that any SQL with a plan in excess of 300 lines should not be monitored (see below for SQLMon hidden parameters – and change them at your own risk, preferably with the backing of an SR from Oracle Support). This execution plan had well over 300 lines. The solution is to change either the session or the system to allow monitoring to happen when the plan is over 300 lines.

e.g.

alter system  set "_sqlmon_max_planlines"=500 scope=memory sid='*';
or
alter session set "_sqlmon_max_planlines"=500;

The negative side effect it that the monitoring will use more resources (primarily memory and CPU), which is why there are default limits on this feature. You might want to change it back when you’re finished to conserve resources.

Note that if you change the system parameter whilst the SQL is running, it will start to monitor the SQL at that point, so you will only get a partial picture of what is taking place, which is less valuable.

select ksppinm, ksppstvl, ksppdesc
  from sys.x$ksppi a, sys.x$ksppsv b
 where a.indx=b.indx
  and lower(ksppinm) like lower('%sqlmon%')
order by ksppinm;

KSPPINM                   KSPPSTVL  KSPPDESC
------------------------- --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_sqlmon_binds_xml_format  default   format of column binds_xml in [G]V$SQL_MONITOR
_sqlmon_max_plan          640       Maximum number of plans entry that can be monitored. Defaults to 20 per CPU
_sqlmon_max_planlines     300       Number of plan lines beyond which a plan cannot be monitored
_sqlmon_recycle_time      60        Minimum time (in s) to wait before a plan entry can be recycled
_sqlmon_threshold         5         CPU/IO time threshold before a statement is monitored. 0 is disabled

You may also notice a few other parameters in there. The “_sqlmon_recycle_time” hows the amount of time that the SQLMon plan will be guaranteed to be retained. Any retention time after that will be a bonus and depend upon the amount of SQL needing to be monitored. I see monitoring plans disappearing after 2-3 minutes in some systems, so you need to be quick, and you should save the plans down to disk.

save_sqlmon

The mad thing is that I was aware of this restriction before I posted by request for help on Twitter but I’d completely forgotten about it. So here’s the blog post to help me remember!

Filed under Administration, Performance and Tuning Tagged with 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 18c, 19c, MISSING, monitoring, oracle, PARALLEL, SQLMON, SQLMONITOR

Data Guard Unexpected Lag

03/01/2019 6 Comments

facepalm When configuring a physical standby database for Oracle using Data Guard, you need to create Standby Redo logs to allow the redo to be applied in (near) real time to the Standby. Without standby redo logs, Oracle will wait for an entire Archive Log to be filled and copied across to the standby before it will apply changes, which could take quite a while.

Which leads me to the problem I encountered a while ago, and due to being forgetful, still encounter today when creating standby redo logs in Oracle 12C and 18C.

I have a Primary database with 3 Redo logs, and I have created a Physical Standby database with 3 Redo logs and then 4 Standby Redo logs created as follows:

alter database add standby logfile group 4 '/u01/.../redo_standby04.dbf' size 200M;
alter database add standby logfile group 5 '/u01/.../redo_standby05.dbf' size 200M;
alter database add standby logfile group 6 '/u01/.../redo_standby06.dbf' size 200M;
alter database add standby logfile group 7 '/u01/.../redo_standby07.dbf' size 200M;

And this is what they look like:

SQL> select group#,thread#,sequence#,bytes/1024/1024 MB,status from v$log order by group#;
GROUP#     THREAD#    SEQUENCE#  MB         STATUS
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------------
1                   1          0        200 UNUSED
2                   1          0        200 UNUSED
3                   1          0        200 UNUSED

SQL> select group#,thread#,sequence#,bytes/1024/1024 MB,status from v$standby_log order by group#;
GROUP#     THREAD#    SEQUENCE#  MB         STATUS
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
4                   1        111        200 ACTIVE
5                   0          0        200 UNASSIGNED
6                   0          0        200 UNASSIGNED
7                   0          0        200 UNASSIGNED

SQL> select * from v$logfile order by group#;
GROUP#     STATUS  TYPE    MEMBER 
---------- ------- ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         1         ONLINE  /u01/.../redo01.dbf
         2         ONLINE  /u01/.../redo02.dbf
         3         ONLINE  /u01/.../redo03.dbf
         4         STANDBY /u01/.../redo_standby01.dbf
         5         STANDBY /u01/.../redo_standby02.dbf
         6         STANDBY /u01/.../redo_standby03.dbf
         7         STANDBY /u01/.../redo_standby04.dbf

So what’s the problem?

Well, Dataguard works as expected for a while – applying change immediately – then it lags for ages and you get an OEM alert that it’s lagging. Then it works fine for a while again and then another lag.

The problem is that when I created the Standby Redo log files, I did not specify the Thread. But why do I need to specify the thread? This is not RAC. It does not have multiple threads for redo – one for each node. We have Thread 1 and that’s it.

When I used to do this in Oracle 11.2, the Standby Redo logs got Thread 1 by default. Always Thread 1.

From Oracle 12.1, and also in 12.2.0.1, 18C (12.2.0.2) and probably 19C (12.2.0.3), Oracle creates the Standby Redo logs with Thread 0 by default, although sometimes it creates them on Thread 1 (although this seems to be only in 12.1 but let me know if you know better). I don’t know why.

Standby Redo log MUST belong to the SAME Thread as the Online Redo logs for them to be used. Having (in this case) 1 x redo on Thread 1 and 3 x Redo on Thread 0, I only have 1 x Standby Redo usable for my online Redo.

The solution is stop the Apply, DROP the Standby Redo on Thread 0, and create new Standby Redo Logs explicity stating Thread 1, and restart the Apply.

dgmgrl> edit database orcl12dr set state='APPLY-OFF';

sql> alter database drop standby logfile          group 4 '/u01/.../redo_standby04.dbf';
sql> alter database add  standby logfile thread 1 group 4 '/u01/.../redo_standby04.dbf' size 200M;

dgmgrl> edit database orcl12dr set state='APPLY-ON';

And all is good with the world.

It is worth saying that MOS note 1595034.1 gets the corrective advice EXACTLY WRONG, with the incorrect snippet reproduced here:

"The standby redo logs can't be used, since they are assigned to thread 0. 
Standby RedoLogs should not be assigned to a specific Thread. 
Please use fallowing statements:
...
SQL> ALTER DATABASE DROP STANDBY LOGFILE GROUP <Group#>; 
and create new SRLs with
SQL> ALTER DATABASE ADD STANDBY LOGFILE GROUP <Group#> SIZE ;"

No MOS analyst! Standby Redo Logs MUST be assigned to a specific thread. Thread 0 Standby Logs are ignored!

And don’t forget, if you are using RAC you need to have Standby Redo Logs for EVERY thread accessible to EVERY instance, just like the Online Redo logs.

If you have single instance, ensure you specify Thread 1, and ensure you have 1 more Standby Redo log available than Online Redo log.

As a final note on Data Guard, from Oracle 12.1 you really should be using the Data Guard Broker to configure and manage Data Guard. It’s simple and it’s much better and safer than configuring Data Guard manually and has some nice validation and monitoring features too.

Addendum: For clarity, not specifying a Thread means that Oracle is supposed to auto-adjust the thread to match what thread is needed, using the Thread 0 as a pool so you presumably need less redo defined in RAC environment, but it just doesn’t work very well (or not at all) leading to the fast/slow/fast/slow lag symptoms. It’s also a pretty pointless saving as redo logs are small relative to the database size. If you have a LOT of nodes in the cluster meaning a lot of standby redo logs, and they aren’t all committing redo heavily (when they will all need all of their standby redo logs anyway) why do you have so many nodes? And validating the setup will report that you don’t have enough standby redo logs. Looks like a solution to something that isn’t a problem for anyone.

So this is an undocumented problem-introducing enhancement in Oracle 12 solving no practical real-world problem.

I’ll let you know if it is fixed in Oracle 19C.

Here’s some real-world output showing the apply lag with Thread 0 SRL’s, and how it disappears when Thread 1 SRL’s are explicitly created. Please note the units and date. I can’t provide the alert log output in this blog to prove my annotations.

SQL> select * from v$standby_event_histogram order by LAST_TIME_UPDATED;

NAME                       TIME UNIT                  COUNT LAST_TIME_UPDATED        CON_ID
-------------------- ---------- ---------------- ---------- -------------------- ----------
apply lag                    43 seconds                   3 01/03/2019 17:22:38           0
apply lag                     9 minutes                  58 01/03/2019 17:30:54           0
apply lag                    11 minutes                  60 01/03/2019 17:32:55           0
apply lag                    12 minutes                  59 01/03/2019 17:33:54           0
apply lag                    13 minutes                  57 01/03/2019 17:34:55           0
apply lag                    14 minutes                  60 01/03/2019 17:35:55           0
apply lag                    15 minutes                  47 01/03/2019 17:36:42           0
apply lag                    10 minutes                  61 01/03/2019 17:36:44           0
-- First SRL Thread 1 created : 2019-01-03T17:39:43.890329+00:00
apply lag                    27 seconds                   9 01/03/2019 17:45:39           0
apply lag                    30 seconds                   5 01/03/2019 17:45:42           0
apply lag                    31 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:45:44           0
apply lag                    32 seconds                   6 01/03/2019 17:45:45           0
apply lag                    33 seconds                  10 01/03/2019 17:45:46           0
apply lag                    34 seconds                   8 01/03/2019 17:45:47           0
apply lag                    35 seconds                   9 01/03/2019 17:45:48           0
apply lag                    36 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:45:49           0
apply lag                    37 seconds                   5 01/03/2019 17:45:50           0
apply lag                    38 seconds                   8 01/03/2019 17:45:51           0
apply lag                    39 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:45:52           0
apply lag                    40 seconds                   3 01/03/2019 17:45:53           0
apply lag                    41 seconds                   3 01/03/2019 17:45:54           0
apply lag                    42 seconds                   4 01/03/2019 17:45:55           0
apply lag                    44 seconds                   4 01/03/2019 17:45:56           0
apply lag                    45 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:45:57           0
apply lag                    46 seconds                   5 01/03/2019 17:45:58           0
apply lag                    47 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:45:59           0
apply lag                    48 seconds                   4 01/03/2019 17:46:00           0
apply lag                    49 seconds                   8 01/03/2019 17:46:01           0
apply lag                    50 seconds                   5 01/03/2019 17:46:02           0
apply lag                    51 seconds                   6 01/03/2019 17:46:03           0
apply lag                    52 seconds                   8 01/03/2019 17:46:04           0
apply lag                    53 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:46:05           0
apply lag                    54 seconds                   6 01/03/2019 17:46:06           0
apply lag                    55 seconds                  10 01/03/2019 17:46:07           0
apply lag                    56 seconds                  11 01/03/2019 17:46:09           0
apply lag                    57 seconds                   8 01/03/2019 17:46:10           0
apply lag                    58 seconds                   6 01/03/2019 17:46:11           0
apply lag                    59 seconds                   7 01/03/2019 17:46:12           0
-- Final SRL Thread 1 created 2019-01-03T17:51:58.694308+00:00
apply lag                     8 minutes                 103 01/03/2019 17:52:55           0
apply lag                     7 minutes                 120 01/03/2019 17:52:56           0
apply lag                     6 minutes                 130 01/03/2019 17:52:58           0
apply lag                     5 minutes                 180 01/03/2019 17:53:00           0
apply lag                     4 minutes                 181 01/03/2019 17:53:03           0
apply lag                     3 minutes                 183 01/03/2019 17:53:06           0
apply lag                     2 minutes                 260 01/03/2019 17:53:11           0
-- All SRL Thread 0's deleted, then ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVE LOG issued. 2019-01-03T18:19:33.757994+00:00
-- No more APPLY lag for 3 days (any lag reported below -of a few seconds- is due to other reasons)
apply lag                    23 seconds                  10 01/06/2019 18:14:59           0
apply lag                    29 seconds                   8 01/06/2019 18:15:03           0
apply lag                    26 seconds                  10 01/06/2019 18:15:09           0
apply lag                    28 seconds                  10 01/06/2019 18:15:11           0
apply lag                    24 seconds                  12 01/06/2019 18:15:12           0
apply lag                    25 seconds                   9 01/06/2019 18:15:14           0
apply lag                    16 seconds                  33 01/07/2019 11:02:37           0
apply lag                    20 seconds                  17 01/09/2019 11:01:37           0
apply lag                    21 seconds                  29 01/09/2019 11:01:40           0
apply lag                    22 seconds                  19 01/09/2019 11:01:42           0
apply lag                    14 seconds                  50 01/10/2019 00:08:19           0
apply lag                    15 seconds                  44 01/10/2019 00:08:25           0
apply lag                    17 seconds                  17 01/10/2019 00:08:27           0
apply lag                    18 seconds                  23 01/10/2019 00:08:28           0
apply lag                    19 seconds                  21 01/10/2019 00:08:30           0
apply lag                    13 seconds                  73 01/10/2019 00:30:51           0
apply lag                     9 seconds                 170 01/10/2019 00:33:11           0
apply lag                     6 seconds                 426 01/10/2019 01:34:29           0
apply lag                     4 seconds                1304 01/10/2019 11:00:42           0
apply lag                     7 seconds                 294 01/10/2019 11:00:54           0
apply lag                     8 seconds                 222 01/10/2019 11:00:55           0
apply lag                    10 seconds                 117 01/10/2019 11:00:56           0
apply lag                    11 seconds                 109 01/10/2019 11:00:57           0
apply lag                    12 seconds                  90 01/10/2019 11:00:58           0
apply lag                     5 seconds                 726 01/10/2019 11:01:38           0
apply lag                     3 seconds                2911 01/10/2019 11:12:46           0
apply lag                     2 seconds                7866 01/10/2019 11:56:28           0
apply lag                     1 seconds               58544 01/10/2019 11:59:15           0
apply lag                     0 seconds              758505 01/10/2019 12:00:07           0

Filed under Administration, DataGuard, RAC Tagged with apply, DataGuard, dgmgrl, lag, log, oracle, rac, redo, ship, standby

UKOUG Oracle Conferences – why bother?

21/11/2018 1 Comment

The excellent DOAG Oracle conference is currently taking place in Nuremberg in Germany.

I’ve been thinking about the UKOUG Conference due to take place in Liverpool on 3rd-5th December 2018. About 2 weeks away.

Why would you bother paying to attend these conferences? Why should I, or my company, use our money to attend? Oracle provide free conferences and 1-day events around the world talking about the Oracle product set. Oracle Partners also provide free events with their speakers too. They are FREE! FREE! FREE!

I only need to convince my boss to take time out of the office. They don’t need to raid their budget – they just need to let me out!

BUT! Those events are effectively a sales pitch. If you are not paying in cash you are paying in other ways, with partners and Oracle looking for you to adopt them and pay them via licensing, support and consultancy. I’m not saying those events are not without worth; learning about Oracle’s new product and partner offerings certainly has value and I would encourage people to attend those events. But what are they not offering? Running those events isn’t free and large corporations are not known for their philanthropy.

An Independent User Group, like the UKOUG, doesn’t do sales pitches. It has speakers from around the world coming to share their SUCCESSES AND FAILURES! They talk about what worked, and what didn’t. They talk about the limitations and the excellence of the software and services which you are being sold.

If you want to know what happens AFTER you’ve bought the software. AFTER you’ve seen the amazing new features and where they ACTUALLY WORK or FAIL, you need to talk to people who are doing it, not those who are selling it.

And you can talk to them, and me, at the UKOUG. There are networking events; you can look into the eyes of the speaker who just told you something was great and ask them a question about how they know it’s great and how it could be great for you! And the networking events are, above all, FUN. It’s not all work. It’s also play. Have a drink, a meal, a chat, a coffee, a beer with like-minded individuals.

The event is in Liverpool, well known as somewhere to enjoy yourself as well as seeing the historic buildings and great sports teams. It’s just over 2 hours to get there on the train from London. Not as far as you might think!

See past the sales? See you there!

Filed under UKOUG Tagged with enjoy, fun, learn, liverpool, oracle, teach, tech18, ukoug

Oracle Open World Presentation: REST Enabled Neural Networks

22/10/2018 1 Comment

Hi! I’m currently at Oracle Open World 2018 in San Francisco and I’ve so I thought I would provide a copy of my slide deck for the presentations this morning.

If you are interested in how to provide good Neural Networks Machine Learning to developers in a simple to ingest REST interface, this is the place for you!

All of the URL’s are live, running in the Oracle Cloud, at the time of writing; including the somewhat open AutoREST interface to a simple data set. Enjoy!

The PDF is only a few meg:

1 – Code1-Nnets_REST-joint-ver2

rest_enabled_presentation_splash

Filed under Development Tagged with autorest, dev, learning, machine, networks, neural, oow18, openworld, oracle, REST

Off to Spain!

21/09/2018 Leave a comment

Next week I will be in Madrid to speak at the Spanish Oracle User Group – SpOUG!

I am really looking forward to this. Great content, an opportunity to look around Madrid – somewhere I have not been for 26 years – and catch up with fellow techies, some of whom I have not seen in thousands of miles.

I have never been to SpOUG, and I’m afraid my Spanish is barely enough to order 2 beers and some tapas so I will be speaking in English.

I hope you can make it there too, and help send your career soaring to new heights – this conference is taking place in a vertical wind tunnel where you can don a special suit and fly! It’s like sky diving without the 2 mile plummet to the ground (I’m never doing THAT again!)

¡Te veo allí!

Filed under SpOUG, UKOUG Tagged with madrid, oracle, spain, SpOUG

POUG18

18/09/2018 2 Comments

So that was POUG18 – the ~~Polish~~ Pint with Oracle User Group. This is the 3rd annual conference (and the 4th event) I have attended. A new location, many new speakers but the same vibe, energy and level of fun. Taking place in Sopot on the Baltic Sea, it was simply excellent and has to be the most fun Oracle conference in Europe. Its just a good size. Not too big, not too small.

We were lucky with the weather, which was mostly warm and sunny – this always helps lift events!

But the conference was again simply excellent. Great work by Kamil and Luiza (and everyone else involved!)

Packed rooms, amazing presentations from excellent speakers and personalised beer. What’s not to like!

Pretty much the only thing missing was POUG fixture Martin Widlake.

So as the sun sets on another POUG, we look forward to the next one. Where will it be this time? Front runners are the unpronounceable Wrocław, Poznań, Łódź or maybe in somewhere the mountains.

Thank you for inviting me.

Next… SpOUG – the Spanish Oracle User Group Tech Day next week. Hurrah!

Filed under POUG, UKOUG Tagged with conference, oracle, POUG, sopot

Off to Poland…

04/09/2018 Leave a comment

This week I will be speaking at the Polish Oracle User Group annual conference in Sopot, Poland. It looks like a beautiful location for what is a really fun conference. As well as being surrounded by some of the most knowledgeable and excellent technology speakers in the world, there’s also plenty of fun and dancing taking place.

If I am extremely unlucky, I’ll end up swimming in the Baltic Sea. If you are unlucky, you’ll see me swimming in the Baltic Sea. Where I am from in the England there is an expression “It’s Baltic”, which means it is very cold outside. Very cold. So it is because it’s cold, OK. 🙂

I hope I’ll see you in Poland – fantastic place to visit with lovely people.

And don’t forget the parties and the dancing. Oh yeah!

And don’t believe all you hear about the vodka and axes, it’s much worse than that!

Filed under Administration, POUG, UKOUG Tagged with conference, gdansk, oracle, poland, POUG, sopot

Which Oracle Release are you using?

13/08/2018 9 Comments

Post Date: August 2018!

Recently an awesome Oracle Guru friend of mine questioned someone who was installing 11.2.0.4 with the word “seriously”, which is think shows that Oracle staff sometimes don’t live in the same technological world as the rest of business.

My response was:

11.2.0.4 is normal. In the real world:

– large corps mostly use old versions
– consultants look at current versions
– Oracle staff look at unreleased versions

I have known instances of Oracle staff blogging about how a feature works when, in the officially released versions, it didn’t. It only worked that way in a version which was released some months later. There was no reference to the release and the fact that there was a significant functional change between releases (but I suppose that’s a blog and not “official” documentation – the official documentation said nothing at all about how that particular feature worked. Nothing! So thank you mystery blogger.)

Anyway, the point of this post was I then did a small twitter poll to my most excellent and cosy band of followers to see what Oracle releases people were using. I asked 2 questions (because twitter is limited) and here’s the results:

oracle_version_highest

So more people have some form of 12 in the DB, but only 7% have 18 in Production. This at a time when most Oracle staff are thinking about Oracle 20 and 21, as Oracle 19 is done and just awaiting release. Think about that, Oracle… Whenever I am at a presentation by an Oracle PM, I think “wow – I might be able to use those new features in 2-5 years”.

oracle_version_lowest

So very few people have 12.x as their lowest version (which would include 18 as that’s really 12.2.0.2) and MORE have 9, 8 or 7 as their major headache! Yes – there are more on 9, 8 and 7 than are using 18 in Production. Lets say that once more. There are more on 9, 8 and 7 than are using 18 in Production

So why upgrade? Very few databases take advantage of all of the latest sexy features. I suspect that many of the applications still being produced could run on Oracle 7.3.4. – more so as the proliferation of ORM’s like Hibernate has left a generation of developers with little appreciation of the database and how to take advantage of it**. So why upgrade? These days? Security. Patches. Support. Without those 3 things, you are living on hope, hope that nothing goes wrong as you’ll struggle to find anyone to fix it – including Oracle. Hoping that nobody tries to hack your 8.1.7 database as it’s a Swiss Cheese of vulnerabilities, like all 7, 8, 8i, 9i, 10G DB’s. Not that we hear about systems being compromised every day on the news.

Anecdote #1: By coincidence I was talking to a client at about the same time and whilst they are a mostly 12.1 shop, they still had an old 8i database hanging around… as usual it was going to be “retired soon” (which in my experience means sometime in the next 15-20 years) and wasn’t worth the time and effort to be upgraded or even do a business case to upgrade it!

**Anecdote #2: At a client a few years ago, an excellent Java Developer asked me to put an index on a flag column. I pointed out that with only 3 values that an index wouldn’t help, and as this was OLTP a bitmap index wasn’t appropriate due to concurrency issues. He said that with 3 values indexed, his query would be 3 times faster! We sat down and I explained some database fundamentals to him, at which point he said “don’t put an index on there – that would be a stupid idea”. A few weeks later he came back over and asked about SQL queries “I’m trying to aggregate this data – can the database help?”. I spent 30 minutes showing him in-line views and windowing analytic functions and we wrote the code he needed for his output. “Wow! You have just saved me 3 days of Java coding…” – he was going to pull everything into Java and process it there, so as well as 3 days of coding, we also saved the SAN, the network and a whole bunch of CPU by dealing with data at the database layer – which is always the most efficient place to deal with it!

Filed under Administration, Management, oracle Tagged with 10G, 11G, 12C, 18c, 7, 8i, 9i, developers, oracle, patching, release, Security, upgrade

Riga Dev Days 2018

03/06/2018 Leave a comment

Last week I spent some time in Riga, Latvia. It was unusually warm, much to the consternation of the locals who wanted it to return to more normal sub-20C instead of the current 27C. Riga is a long way North.

It is also beautiful, friendly, and hosts a great conference! RigaDevDays is a Development conference, talking about Architecture, programming paradigms and also databases (which is usually where I fit in). I was speaking about Oracle Optimization. I particularly enjoyed watching presentations about technology where I have little or out-of-date knowledge – it can really open up new thought processes, but it also tends to show that there’s nothing really new and nothing that somebody else has not tried before. It’s also good to see technology trends, see how our industry is evolving.

Attending conferences is a fabulous way to be educated, with awesome levels of expert knowledge on-tap. As well as learning new things, you can discuss how to resolve your problems and get fresh ideas about the best way to solve your business dilemmas.

Here’s a few photo’s from Riga! Attend a conference, learn from each other – it’s great!

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Filed under rigadevdays, UKOUG Tagged with conference, oracle, riga, rigadevdays

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