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It’s been a work in progress for quite some time, with many of my customers asking when will it be completed. Well, I’m very excited to announce that I have finally completed my new 2 day “Oracle Diagnostics and Performance Tuning” seminar and that it’s ready to be presented. I already have a number of […]

Very excited to announce some new “Let’s Talk Database” events scheduled for February 2019 in various locations in Australia/NZ: Canberra: Wednesday, 20 February 2019: Registration Link Sydney: Thursday, 21 Feburary 2019: Registration Link Brisbane: Friday, 22 Feburary 2019: Registration Link Melbourne: Wednesday, 27 February 2019: Registration Link Wellington: Friday, 1 March 2019: Registration Link   […]

I was recently very honoured and flattered to have received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” Speaker Award from the UKOUG. I have only managed to get to the excellent UKOUG Tech conferences on a couple of occasions, so it was both a thrill and a surprise to be so honoured. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make […]

  I was very flattered and honoured to be named one of the first 4 “Oracle Masters” by the Australian Oracle User Group at the recent AUSOUG Connect 2018 conference in Melbourne. Thank you to all the AUSOUG members involved for this award. As always, it’s a pleasure to help fellow Oracle Database professionals in […]

  After initially not being in a position to make it this year, I will now be presenting at the AUSOUG Connect 2018 Conference in Melbourne this coming Wednesday, 21 November 2018. My presentation will be: “12c Release 2 and 18c – New Indexing Related Features” Oracle Database 12.2 and 18.3 releases have introduced a number […]

By default, Oracle doesn’t index an entry if all columns within the index are NULL. However, (as I’ve blogged previously), it’s possible to index all possible NULL values by simply adding a constant value to the index column list. Importantly, the CBO knows when a column has all it’s NULL values indexed and can potentially […]

I’m very excited to announce two new Webinar events for my acclaimed “Oracle Indexing Internals and Best Practices” training event, running in March 2019 !! For details of all the extensive content covered in the webinars, please visit my Indexing Seminar page. The webinars will run for 4 hours each day, spanning a full week period (Monday […]

There’s an organisation I had been dealing with on and off over the years who were having all sorts of issues with their Siebel System and who were totally convinced their performance issues were due directly to being forced to use the FIRST_ROWS_10 optimizer. I’ve attempted on a number of occasions to explain that their […]

In Part I, Part II and Part III we looked at some advantages of Global Indexes that may not be obvious to some. One of the advantages of a Local Index vs. Non-Partitioned Global Index is that a Local Index being a smaller index structures may have a reduced BLEVEL in comparison. This can save […]

In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at how Global Indexes can effectively perform “Partition Pruning” when the partition keys are specified in SQL predicates, by only using those index entries that have a Data Object of interest stored within the index Rowids. In this piece, I’ll cover the key performance […]

In Part I of this series, I highlighted how a Non-Partitioned Global Index on a Partitioned Table is able to effectively perform “Partition Pruning” by reading only the associated index entries to access just the table blocks of interest from relevant table partitions when the table partitioned keys are specified in an SQL Predicate. Understanding […]

When it comes to indexing a partitioned table, many automatically opt for Local Indexes, as it’s often assumed they’re simply easier to manage and more efficient than a corresponding Global Index. Having smaller index structures that are aligned to how the table is partitioned certainly has various advantages. The focus in this little series is on […]