Our new book “Data Warehouse Blueprints” is now available at Hanser Verlag as printed edition and e-book. Here a short overview of the book and some background information about the long history of this publication.
Data Warehouse Blueprints
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Partial Indexes Trilogy – Part 3: Queries on Partial Indexes
After creating local and global partial indexes, the last part of this blog post trilogy shows how partial indexes are used by the optimizer for SQL queries – especially for queries in Data Warehouse environments.
Partial Indexes Trilogy – Part 2: Global Partial Indexes
Partial Indexes, introduced with Oracle 12c, are available for local and global indexes. In part 2 of this blog post trilogy, let’s focus on global partial indexes on a partitioned table.
Partial Indexes Trilogy – Part 1: Local Partial Indexes
Sometimes it would be useful to create indexes for only some of the partitions of a partitioned table. Oracle 12c supports this possibility with Partial Indexes. This blog post shows how local partial indexes can be created – even on an Oracle 11g database.
Data Vault Book Recommendations
Data Vault is getting more and more popular for modeling Data Warehouses. Some of my colleagues asked me for book recommendations about this modeling method. Here a short review (from my personal point of view) of two Data Vault standard books.
Identity Columns and Data Pump
Identity columns were introduced in Oracle 12c to automatically create sequence numbers for a column – usually for the primary key. Interesting question: What is the behavior of identity columns if the table is exported and imported using Data Pump?
Logging Dynamic SQL
Dynamic SQL is a wonderful feature with a lot of flexibility. Unfortunately, it is not trivial to see the executed SQL statements. A simple trick helps to test and debug PL/SQL code with Dynamic SQL.
