One feature that many developers and data analysts are not aware of is the SAMPLE function in Oracle. It is quite an old feature (not sure exactly when it was added). Below is a simple example of how it works. We use a table with 9 000 000 rows and seelct from it with a sample percentage of 0.0001 We […]
Database: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 – Production Version 19.3.0.0.0 I write this post in order to follow step by step how a bigfile tablespace is created and managed in 19c. The main purpose is to find a way to estimate the space benefits of defragmenting the tablespace. I will use two methods: Method 1. By calculating the theoretical size of the tables. It is outlined below in steps 19-20. The limitation of this calculation is that right now it works for tables only Method 2. By using the Segment Advisor. Outlined below in steps 21-22 1. Check the datafile does not exist at OS level: 2. Create the tablespace as user SYSTEM: 3. Check DB file getting created: 4. Login as ‘radu’ user. Create test tables in the test_tbs tablespace: 5. Check size of the DB file. Should not be changed: 11M 6. Run test SQL: Output: 7. Populate first test table with 9 million rows. Example of block used to populate the table: 8. Check size of the DB file –> 291M 9. Run the control SQL from step 6. Used –> 284M 10. Populate second test table with 9 million rows. 11. Check size of the DB file –> 526M 12. Run the control SQL from step 6. Used –> 500M 13. Delete all the rows from the first test table and commit. 14. Check size of the DB file –> 526M. Unchanged 15. Run […]
I recently worked at a Client that had the Windows desktop setup in a non-English language. Naturally, I did not get admin rights on the Client owned desktop so I could not change the sqldeveloper.conf SQL Developer config file which was stored in a ‘protected’ location. Using SQL Developer in a foreign, non-English language was a pain so, after some […]
Database cloning, very handy feature, is now available for Oracle’s Autonomous Cloud. Quite easy to implement, too: The options are:
a. First step is the database creation. Quite straightforward: b. Next step is to a connection setup connection from local client: from the main datbase page we click the DB Connection button and download the client credentials: A zip archive will de downloaded into your local client machine. In my case, the file is called: Wallet_raduatp.zip c. SQL Developer Connection: […]
Oracle does not release anymore full client packages for the Mac clients. Therefore, we need to use the Instant Client from: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/intel-macsoft-096467.html The installation is quite simple but we need to rememeber that, in order to have a functional client for a DBA we would need to download three packages at least: Basic Package – All files required to run […]
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ORA-14047: ALTER TABLE INDEX RENAME may not be combined with other operations When we try to rename a table or index name in Oracle, we use a simple command as following If we put into schema names to this command, we can encounter ORA-14047 error.This error raises when we put schema name in front of the last_table_name. But, if we use: it will work! It is same with Index renaming.
