Parameter Recommendations

Parameter Recommendations for Oracle Database 12c – Part II

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Time for a new round on Parameter Recommendations for Oracle Database 12.1.0.2. The focus of this blog post settles on very well known parameters with interesting behavior. This can be a behavior change or simply something we’d like to point out. And even if you still work on Oracle Database 11g some of the below recommendations may apply to your environment as well.

Preface

Again, please be advised – the following parameter list is mostly based on personal experience only. Some of them are officially recommended by Oracle

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Parameter Recommendations for Oracle Database 12c – Part I

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A few weeks ago we’ve published some parameter recommendations including several underscores but based on an internal discussion (still ongoing) we decided to remove this entry and split up the tasks. The optimizer team will take over parts of it and I’ll post an update as soon as something is published.

Preface

Please be advised – the following parameter list is mostly based on personal experience only. Some of them are officially recommended by Oracle Support. Always use proper testing mechanisms.

We strongly recommend SQL Performance Analyzer to …

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What happened to the blog post about “12c parameters”?

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Two weeks ago I published a blog post about Parameter Recommendations for Oracle Database 12.1.0.2. And I took it down a day later. Why that?

I’ve got a lot of input from external sources for the “Parameter” blog post. And I’d like to thank everybody who contributed to it, especially Oracle ACE Ludovico Caldara.

Generally there was a bit of a misunderstanding internally about whether we should advertise” underscore parameters to cure some misbehavior of the database. In 99% of all cases I’d agree that underscores are not a good solution – especially when it comes …

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