Hello everyone, I wanted to write about something simple and can improve the performance of your sql statements. Unfortunately, many database developers use too much plsql function in their SQL statements. I say too much because if you learn more about the SQL, you will use less plsql. SQL is very capable language to process
Performance
SQL Macro Part2 column_value = nvl(:param, column_value)
Hi, Since I am working on “SQL Macro”, I am keep testing things. so please see my previous post: http://mustafakalayci.me/2020/10/28/sql-macro-is-finally-here/ as mentioned in previous post, is it possible to get rid of column_value = nvl(:param, column_value) conditions? since they become a huge pain in big and complex queries. I provided a very cumbersome solution in
SQL Macro is finally here!
Hi, I was waiting for this for a long time. Finally we can use sql macro in Oracle database. Actually I was excited when I first read about this but after my tests, I stuck at some points. I was hoping to use this as “parameterized views” as in, send a parameter and use it
Oracle Table Compression Part1
Hi, I have been dealing with table compression a lot during my development period and I still do. I wanted to share some information about table information but I believe this will be a long explanation so I will write them in parts and this is part1. Table compression is a very useful feature of
Redo Log Switch Order
Hi, I always have the impression that redo log switch occurs in group number order but a small test showed me, I was wrong. As you know redo log is one of the most important part of a Oracle database. it almost protect everything! your data in memory, data file, your transaction etc. whenever you
NVME Drives and Oracle Database
Hi There, NVME drives are so hot these days. They have amazing read/write speed. my old samsung ssd drive can read and write around 550/530 MB per second and my even older 2.5inch hdd drive has 45/20 MB per second. Current NVME disc drives has around 3500 read and 3000 MB per second which is
Frequent and Fast Refresh Materialized Views has a Big Problem!
Hi, While I was checking V$SQL_PLAN view for a whole different reason, I realized that some of the cursors has incredibly high child cursors. I started to dig and finally I find the problem. My customer have a few frequently fast refreshed materialized views. One of them is refreshed every 10 seconds (you might say
Is It Possible to Change SQL Statement in the Database?
YES! Hi, today I want to write about something which has been asked for many times to me. Let’s say you have an application and it is running very poorly designed sql statements in your database and you are really bored having fights with development teams to ask a change about the sql. Well, in
Performance Gain of NOCOPY Parameters
Hi, Almost every Oracle database uses PLSQL codes like packages/procedures/functions etc. Complex systems with complex codes pass many arguments (parameters) many times between plsql objects. Passing parameters might be the most executed operations in a database. So how well do you pass your parameters? I assume you know about types of parameters like IN or
Native Compilation of a PLSQL Object
Hi, you’ve probably heard about “NATIVE” compilation about plsql objects. I wanted to demonstrate how it is work and whether it really does matter or not. By default Oracle compiles every plsql object as “INTERPRETED” which means, your plsql code transform into a intermediate form which interpreted every time when you run it. This part