This past Wednesday in #oracle, I asked how one views what values are being used in a SQL statement with bind variables. hali led me to v$sql_bind_capture. We played with some joins to v$sql and v$session and all was well. I immediately recognized the blog-worthiness of the discussion and tagged...
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Role Showdown: CONNECT vs RESOURCE
Today in #oracle, a question on privileges led me to discuss the Oracle roles CONNECT and RESOURCE. These two roles are often misused, especially RESOURCE. Jon Emmons highlights this in an old blog post. Important to note is that the CONNECT role contained a lot of dangerous extras up until...
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What is so special about SYSDBA?
Last night in #oracle, someone new to Oracle had some confusion with the SYSDBA privilege. I proceeded to drop some science on him, but here's a basic primer:Only a user with the SYSDBA privilege can startup or shutdown an instance.The oracle OS user can "connect / as sysdba" without providing...
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Honorable Mention
I had to do a triple-take when I actually saw my name in print in the latest Pythian LogBuffer post. Then I had to re-read again to see if it was positive or negative. It was just for my post linking to the SQL implementations page, but still fun.I was...
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ASSM IS EVIL!!!!!!11
OK not really, but HJR wants you to take caution before assuming that ASSM is the second coming. You probably don't want to use it in your direct-path/append-insert bulk loaded warehouse environment.I'm running a hybrid on 10gR2, and hope to fully use ASM when we migrate to the new 64-bit...
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