Preparing my session on Online Statistics Gathering for ETL for the DOAG conference, I noticed some points that I didn’t covered in the previous two blog posts. The first point is showing the problem that may arise if indexes are involved. The second one is about partition exchange load and it completes the topic of partitioned tables started in part 2. No blog posting on Oracle products is nowadays complete without mentioning the cloud. The third point is about Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service and Online Statistics Gathering improvements. Continue reading
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Custom ILM ADO policy conditions using PL/SQL
In my previous post about ILM storage tiering I wrote about ADO conditions that we can provide for storage tiering policies if moving the segments to a read only tablespace. Another option to make storage tiering “conditional” is to provide a custom condition as pl/sql function returning a boolean. How does it work? Can we use Heat Map information? Continue reading
Merging temporal intervals using MATCH_RECOGNIZE
Some time ago Philipp Salvisberg has posted several thoughts about joining and merging temporal intervals. Recently I was looking for some examples of using the new MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause introduced in 12c and found that these queries can be significantly simplified using the new clause.
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Null Accepting Semi-Joins in 12c
One of the new query optimizations in 12c are the null-accepting semi-joins. They make subquery unnesting and a semi-join possible in a situation which led to FILTER operation in older versions. Continue reading