July 2015 archive

OCM 11g Preparation - Gather statistics on a specific table without invalidating cursors

Interesting this topic, because It's very very specific. So, the best thing is know how to do that because the chance of having it in the exam is 100%. "When statistics are updated for a database object, Oracle Database invalidates any currently parsed SQL statements that access the object. The next time such a statement executes, the …

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OCM 11g Preparation - Use Result Cache

Result Cache is not enabled by default but is a such amazing feature that can make your 3 hours query run in less than 1 second after the first call. However, your result set need to be short and the tables involved might not be modified so often. The Oracle official documentation for Result Caches is short. So read …

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OCM 11g Preparation - Administer flashback data archive and schema evolution

I've already talked about that in the topic Perform various recovery operations using Flashback technology but this is here again. For Oracle to have created a separate topic for that, this probably means you should not even think in skipping to study that. Be well prepared. Practice: Creating a Flashback Data Archive Enabling and Disabling Flashback Data …

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OCM 11g Preparation - Create and manage contexts

Oracle Contexts is very useful, specially for application developers. You can define namespaces, variables and keep their values in memory instead of needing to commit to a table. You can also use it as a global variable where similars sessions can share, so it's a good way to also exchange information! The documentation related below is very very …

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