• Oracle

    Fast Parallel Rollback and Large Transactions

    The SMON spit out this error after the cycle of the db on the rollback of the huge insert into the largest table in one of our warehouse environments.  I had serious concerns about a poor execution plan and wondered what we were going to be in for on the rollback and with good reason.   The source to the performance hit was a combination of missing column statistics on the main table used for the joins from the staging table, but also fragmentation caused by a poor design choice, (yes, get exchange partition in there ASAP!) Here is the issue w/ fix with the…

  • DBA Life - Oracle

    Oracle Open World Official Blogger Pass Acceptance

    Like Chet, from OracleNerd, I received my official Blogger Approval for Oracle Open World yesterday!  This will be my first attendance, as something always came up before that kept me from going, so I am looking forward to the event.  A number of people asked me why I didn’t submit a presentation, but I think I’m going to check out the event as a blogger for my first time out and see about presenting next year! 🙂