Monthly Archives: October 2017

Patch 22652097 in 12.1 makes optimizer_adaptive_features parameter obsolete

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After having several issues with adaptive features on 12.1 databases, in some cases, the quickest way to solve problems was to simply set ‘optimizer_adaptive_features’ parameter to FALSE.
In 12.2, this parameter became obsolete and was replaced with two different parameters : ‘optimizer_adaptive_plans’ and ‘optimizer_adaptive_statistics’. Therefore, it is recommended to apply Patch 22652097 (PROVIDE SEPARATE CONTROLS FOR ADAPTIVE PLANS AND ADAPTIVE STATISTICS FEATURES) in order to have the same behaviour in 12.1.
I read thoroughly the README file of Patch 22652097 and applied it on my 12.1 homes. But when I tried to start the databases afterwards, some of them returned the following errors :

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Impdp tip : exclude content of a table and include metadata at once

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I am currently in the process of migrating a 150 Gb Oracle 10g database to 12c. Due to some limitations I won’t discuss here, I have to do it with Datapump.
As I encountered different problems during the import, I had to launch it several times. It took 2 hours to import a 120 Gb table. I knew I had to rerun the import anyway to fix other issues, so I decided to get rid of the data of this big table temporarily.
I scratched my head for a few minutes, because I can be lazy and I did not want to run impdp twice just to exclude the content of the big table and include its metadata.

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ODC Appreciation Day : EM CLI

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When I first started as a DBA two years ago, the colleague in charge of my training thought that I would rather use several GUIs to complete most of the tasks. He said it was because of my age … But he quickly found out that I was more comfortable with CLIs.

For this very first blog post, I would like to participate in the ODC Appreciation Day and talk about a tool I really recommend : EM CLI.

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