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JSON support in Exadata 12.1.2.1.0 and later

Some time ago Oracle announced that RDBMS 12.1.0.2 has built-in support for JSON processing. A little later it was also mentioned that you have support for JSON in the Exadata storage servers for offloading. This is probably a lot more exciting to users of JSON than it is to me as I’m not a developer.…
IO Resource Manager for Pluggable Databases in Exadata

Another interesting topic that goes over and above the CDB Resource Manager Plans I described earlier this week is the implementation of IORM Plans for Pluggable Databases. Pluggable Databases are an interesting object for studies, and I like to research things. When 12c came out there was no support for offloading initially, it is required that…
Testing 12c CDB Resource Plans and a little bit about OEM Express

Inspired by Sue Lee’s presentation at Enkitec’s E4 conference I decided to re-run my test suite to work out how you can use Database and I/O Resource Manager in Oracle 12.1.0.2.2 to help consolidating databases in the new Multi-Tenant architecture. I should point out briefly that the use of Multi-Tenant as demonstrated in this article…
Smart Scan enhancements in Oracle Exadata 12c-inline LOBs

As part of the 12c release of the database and cellos Oracle introduced the ability to perform Smart Scans on inline LOBs. The enhancement is certainly for Secure Files only. And as always, if you would like to read up about Secure Files you can head over to Tim Hall’s website for the details. To…
If you use swingbench take note of sbutil

This is going to be a very short post for a change. I have used Swingbench extensively and really love the tool. Many thanks to Dominic Giles! Recently he announced a new tool on his blog that you can use to inflate your data volume. So instead of using the “-scale” argument when executing oewizard…
Additional information on Oracle 12c big table caching

Teaching is on the things I like doing, and currently I am investigating the Oracle 12c features around caching data in the various memory areas. Since the In-Memory (cost) option has been discussed by other far more knowledgeable people I would like to share some findings about the big table caching here. Some Background In…
Exadata Fast Data File Creation

This post is the result of some testing I performed on Exadata data file creation. You may know that Exadata offloading incorporates SQL optimisations as well as some infrastructure work. For quite some time Exadata allowed the DBA to create data files a lot quicker than on traditional systems. This has been documented before, for…
Little things worth knowing: Is there a penalty in establishing a connection to Oracle using the MAA connection string? Part 2

In the very lengthy previous post about the MAA connect string I wanted to explain the use of the MAA connection string as promoted by Oracle. I deliberately kept the first part simple: both primary and standby cluster were up, and although the database was operating in the primary role on what I called standby…
Little things worth knowing: Is there a penalty in establishing a connection to Oracle using the MAA connection string?

Sorry for the long title! I had a question during my session about “advanced RAC programming features” during the last Paris Oracle Meetup about the MAA connection string. I showed an example taken from the Appication Continuity White Paper (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/clustering/application-continuity-wp-12c-1966213.pdf). Someone from the audience asked me if I had experienced any problems with it, such…
Little things worth knowing: what does opatchauto actually do?

I recently applied system patch 20132450 to my 12.1.0.2.0 installation on a 2 node RAC system on Oracle Linux 7.1. While ensuring that OPatch is the latest version available I came across an interesting command line option in opatchauto. It is called “-generateSteps”. So this could be quite interesting so I wanted to see what…