There are times when you as a DBA wished you were involved before someone designed a data model. After release to production correcting mistakes is usually complicated and with risks.
In version 4.0.3 SSH was introduced in SQL Developer; here’s a post from Jeff Smith about it. Now this feature has become even easier to use with SSH configuration made independent of the database connections.
In SQL Developer Data Modeler you have Libraries under the meny Tools -> Design Rules and Transformations. But when you select that one you may have seen this error message:
This post is meant to be found by people googling the error message ORA-01105 and ORA-19808 on RAC. The following error messages may be seen after starting an instance:
A big conference like Oracle Open World is an excellent opportunity to learn more. But with all the books, blog posts, and on-demand learning on Internet, I really did not have to go to OOW this year to keep myself busy learning. Of course, I learned a lot, but for me, the biggest reward is the inspiration and ideas for future projects, as well as meeting friends in the community including Oracle employees who take part in it.
The biggest conference for Oracle users in the Nordics is not far away. Be there as a speaker and attendee. Sure you have a war story or another experience worth sharing. Last year OUGN received 250 abstracts, please, do it again!
I have my mental list of people in the Oracle community I look up to. They are people who help through social networks, emails, presentations, books, blog posts, or in a friendly conversation. Now, Oracle has recognised that there are many such individuals in the community, people that know a lot and spend much time sharing it with others.
In case you do not want to grant a user access to data dictionary tables like DBA_TABLES, but will let user B see the list of all tables belonging to user A, you can work around it with a pipelined function in schema A:
When you run dbms_stats.gather_table_stats on tables with spatial indexes or dbms_stats.gather_index_stats directly on the spatial index the routine may return without an error even if no statistics gathering took place. You can verify this by looking at the LAST_ANALYZED column in DBA_INDEXES:
When you need to find the OS-process on the database server for an oracle session (dedicated server) you can join v$session with v$process:
