Never thought I would write much about Information Lifecycle Management, as I am actually a developer and not a DBA. I think, it is indeed a topic mostly relevant for DBA’s. But it is generally a good thing, if developers and DBA’s have a deep understanding of each others job, isn’t it? We are giving an overview of the ILM features in our training “12c New Features for Developers” and I’m one of the course instructors for it. That’s the reason, why I’m writing meanwhile the third post about it. Just to clarify some questions, which are not so obviously documented.
After looking at ADO conditions for storage tiering policies and using user defined PL/SQL conditions in previous posts, I was curious whether it is possible to mix storage and compression policies for the same segment? Wouldn’t it for example make sense to move the segment to a low cost tablespace and compress the data within the same action as well? I’ve sometimes heard the opposite statement. But it is very simple to test it, not just trust it. Let’s try it. Continue reading