19.3.0

Automatic SQL Plan Management – Slight Change with 19.4.0

I did blog in more detail about Automatic SQL Plan Management in Oracle 19c. And Roy and I had really a lot of discussion in every customer meeting at OOW19 about it. But there is a slight change to where the feature is available with Oracle 19.4.0.

Automatic SQL Plan Management - Slight Change with 19.4.0

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Slight Change

When you compare the settings of SQL Plan Management between Oracle 19.3 and 19.4, you’ll see the difference:

column parameter_value format a45
column parameter_name format a25
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SELECT PARAMETER_NAME, PARAMETER_VALUE
  FROM   DBA_ADVISOR_PARAMETERS
  WHERE  TASK_NAME = 'SYS_AUTO_SPM_EVOLVE_TASK'
    AND PARAMETER_VALUE <> 'UNUSED'
  ORDER 
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Update (RU) 19.3.0 withdrawn and superseded with 19.3.1

Actually I really refused to blog about this for a few weeks now. But as I receive more questions and read more tweets, I think I need to shed some light and help avoiding confusion. And as readmes and MOS notes are not entirely in sync, you may get confused if you don’t read the “correct” document.

Update (RU) 19.3.0 withdrawn and superseded with 19.3.1

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Oracle 19.3.0 Update (RU)

In April, Oracle released the 19.3.0 Release Update (RU) on Linux and Solaris only. As you can read in my blog post from April 25, 2019, this is a patch bundle meant for …

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In case you miss DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE … again …?!?

In case you miss DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE ... again ...?!?

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I’m tempted to copy and paste my blog post about DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE from February 2019, and exchange only 12.2.0.1 with 19c. But in this case the root cause is different. So this blog post is meant for Oracle 19.3.0 to be precise – in case you miss DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE … again … ?!?

Information about DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE

You will find a lot of information about DBMS_OPTIM_BUNDLE, what it does, since which release it exists and much more in these blog posts:

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