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More minds meet at Sangam 2015…

Diary on Sangam’15
21st, 22nd Nov 2015 at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, HITEC City, Hyderabad, India

In the recently concluded two day Oracle conference – Sangam 2015, there were more number of attendees than last year (Sangam 2014). Sangam – An annual conference for Oracle Technologist across India is organised by AIOUG (All India Oracle Users Group) and aptly has tagline of ‘meeting of minds…’.

It was a privilege to attend such a large scale event for third consecutive year. It was an honour to get in touch with the Oracle ACE and Oracle ACE Directors and hear them speak in front of august gathering. There were numerous sessions lined-up as always. I had briefly shared the sessions attended by me during the two days conference.

Day 1: 21st November 2015

Tim Hall – Oracle ACE Director (Day 1 | Day 2) – It was treat to hear him again and his session on Oracle 12c Consolidations and pros/cons was very relevant and updated.

Kamran Agayev – Oracle Certified Master – His session on “Oracle 12c ASM new features” with webetorial was very crisp and provided lot of insights into the world of Oracle 12c for ASM.

Aman Sharma – Oracle ACE – His session on “Oracle RAC Node Eviction” was overwhelming and demonstrated his expertise in the RAC yet again. It was very useful.

Anju Garg – her session on Oracle ACFS High Availability over NFS Service was enthralling and was studded with illustrations. It was good to know that ACFS now supports all types of files.

Day 2: 22nd November 2015

Oracle VM and Oracle Linux – Kamal Dodeja (Sales Consulting Manager) and Ritesh Kumar (Senior Technical Consultant) from Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. – Their session on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM was primarily revolving around the Technical features offered by Oracle Linux and Oracle VM and concluded with the pricing details.
I had previously blogged about installation of Oracle VM, Oracle Linux and Installation of Oracle 12c on Oracle Enterprise Linux which is available here.
One interesting takeaway from this session of theirs was ksplice – which actually provides high availability and reduces downtime. Overview, Downloads and Documentation on ksplice is available at OTN here. It was a strategic acquisition made by Oracle in 2011. This enables important kernel patches to be applied without reboot or without bringing down any application services in Oracle Linux.

Debaditya Chatterjee – Product Manager Oracle USA – Oracle Database In-Memory Options – It was a good review of Oracle In-Memory database which was delivered by Maria Colgan in the last edition of Sangam. His session focused on the what’s and why’s of Oracle In-Memory database.

Satyendra Pasalpudi – Oracle ACE Director – His session on “Oracle Cloud DBA” showcased the next thing from Oracle – Oracle Cloud. The session was mainly for DBAs.

The conference closed with a motivational speech by “Dr. Rajdeep Manwani” – who shared his priceless life experiences about hard-work, patience, perseverance, failure, success and imaginary finishing line in marathon when most of the contestant gives up.

Thanks to AIOUG and Oracle Technology Network (OTN) for organising such events and providing Oracle fraternity in India a splendid opportunity to hear the speakers from elite Oracle community 🙂

Cheers!
Vijay Mahawar

 

Best Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs

There has been paradigm shift in the technological and scientific innovations that are happening around us. From First generation Vaccum Tubes to Latest generation of Nanotechnology, From Machine Language to High Level Programming Language, Technological innovation has made the computing devices – cheaper, faster, smaller.

The communication between the devices has seen a phenomenal growth. The volume of data produced by all this is rising exponentially. Today technology touches human lives more than ever before.

With all the technological and scientific progress happening around us we have kept our rich cultural heritage and values intact. We as humans are evolving so is the Oracle Database Product.

Over the years there have been several Oracle Database releases and version upgrades. What has remained mostly same are the best practices.

Here is the list of best practices which you can expect in my next few blog posts.

SQL and PL/SQL:

1. Comments – In Line and Multi Line
2. Replace Hard coded literals with Constants and move all related constants into a common package.
3. Modular Approach – Split big program into generic and standalone sub-programs.
4. Instrumentation whereever possible – ON/OFF as required.
5. Achieve as much as poosible with SQL, to avoid context switching between SQL and PLSQLengine.
6. Exception Handling – Try to handle all possible exceptions
7. Avoid “Select * from”, Use fully qualified names when selecting from multiple tables
8. Mention AUTHID clause, BEQUEATH clause,
9. Avoid default Oracle implicit type conversion.
10. Use %ROWTYPE for record types and %TYPE for variables. Avoid hardcoding VARCHAR2 length.
11. Exit the program gracefully. Make sure to free up resources and memory before exiting.
12. Familiarize with in-built oracle packages – Don’t write routine which is already provided by oracle.
13. Show user, con_id – set timing on and many more, use spool in SQL scripts
14. Ensure that the rollback scripts are ready.
15. Compile objects in the order of precedene.
16. Ensure you use paranthesis in expressions to override the default precedence order.
17. Start with the data model and then proceed with the coding for complex SQL queries.
18. Maintain test scripts/harness to test the logic and test performance.
19. Use GET and SET to modify package variables.
20. Use NOCOPY to copy variables by reference for performance benefits.
21. Use control tables to make the code customized and generic.

DBA:

1. Group related privileges and grant it to a role for better manageability.
2. Lock all unused user accounts and change default passwords for all default accounts
3. Use seperate disks for system, sysaux; application data and Index tablespaces for better performance.
4. Use comments whenever a parameter is changed – Record – date, time and changed by.
5. Use seperate disks for multiplexed redo logs files in same redo log groups.
6. Gather statistics using DBMS_STATS after BULK DML on tables and partitions.
7. Schedule the housekeeping jobs to runs during off peak time.
8. Keep oracle documents and useful links ready and handy for reference just like a bible.

In my next few blog posts, I shall showcase some of the best practices both for Developers and DBAs with the help of demo scripts.

Conclusion:

This list is not complete and is ever evolving. It is outcome of my years of association with Oracle technology and the learnings I had taken from Oracle pundits. Its kind of survival kit for both Developers and DBAs.

Cheers!
Vijay

 

10 Features in Oracle 12c for Developers

Dear All,
After a long break and holiday season, today I tried my hands on some new features in Oracle 12c for developers.
There has been flood of articles, blog posts, seminars, webinars, conference presentations, videos on Oracle 12c since its launch, which is making wave in the cyber world. Over the years I have learnt to overcome this overwhelming phenomenon in my own way.  The idea is to create my own list of favorite features in new release of Oracle Database and post it 🙂

But all that remained enigma until I tried some of the features today. I have narrowed down my list to 10 features for developers in Oracle 12c.

Source: ToadWorld – Oracle 12c understanding the version number

Did you know that Oracle release version number says a lot about the Oracle Database Product you are working on? There is a one article on understanding Oracle version numbers by Dan Hotka. In case you are interested you can access it on ToadWorld website here.

The presentation content for my Top 10 Features in Oracle 12c for Developers can be found here.

You can download the – setup script and demo script available on my website.

I would like to end this post by sharing a wonderful interactive guide on Oracle 12c. The interactive guide is available on Oracle website here.

Hope you find the content useful and it gives you head start to latest release of Oracle 12c.

Cheers!
Vijay Mahawar

 

Top 12 Features of Oracle Database 12c

Source: Oracle on Youtube
With over 500 new features – narrowing down to a few favorites was a daunting task.
But Tom Kyte, Vice President of Oracle, (of AskTom fame) was up to the challenge and shares his top 12 features of Oracle Database 12c.