Minimalistic Oracle

Minimalistic Oracle contains a collection of practical examples from my encounters with Oracle technologies. When relevant, I also write about other technologies, like Linux or PostgreSQL. Many of the posts starts with "how to" since they derive directly from my own personal experience. My goal is to provide simple examples, so that they can be easily adapted to other situations.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

How to perform a clone from active database

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With Oracle 11g, a new method to clone databases was introduced: "Clone from Active Database". This method allows for cloning of...

Friday, January 24, 2014

How to shrink a datafile in a temporary tablespace

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alter tablespace TEMP shrink tempfile '/data/oracle/PRODDB01/datafiles/temp_20.dbf' KEEP 8G; This feature was introduced in Oracle...

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

How does the 11gR2 feature "deferred segment creation" work?

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Starting from 11gR2 onwards, Oracle introduced a feature called deferred segment creation . This means that Oracle will not need to create a...

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

How to make a table read only (11g only)

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ALTER TABLE table_name READ ONLY; The command would make the table read-only even for its owner. To reverse the operation: ALTER TABLE...

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Name: Vegard Kåsa: My career as an Oracle DBA startet in 2001, when I acceptet a request to take on the responsibility as my current employer's DBA. From that point and onwards, managing Oracle databases has kept me busy and engaged. I enjoy my work, and particulary appreciate the constant learning and devlopment that comes with the job. From 2014, I am self-employed through my company Oric Consulting AS (Norway), and from 2024 Oric Consulting AB (Sweden) I currently live in Göteborg, Sweden, with my family.

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