Month: February 2019

Cloud Services, Cloud Services | Exadata | Linux, Security

AWS EC2: Grant Privileges to SYS Objects

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Hello all!
So quick one today: How to grant and revoke privileges from/to SYS objects on EC2 instances? Do we have the ‘grant option’ for those grants?

Easy, have a look:

# Grant

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/

# Grant with Grant Option

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.grant_sys_object(
        p_obj_name     => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_grantee      => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege    => 'SELECT',
        p_grant_option => true);
end;
/

# Revoke

begin
    rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.revoke_sys_object(
        p_obj_name  => 'V_$SESSION',
        p_revokee   => 'GREPORA',
        p_privilege => 'SELECT');
end;
/
Database, Performance

11g SQL transformations (CBQT, CNT, JE, JPPD)

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Hi All!
Let’s save some time to review those?
They usually very important when analysing query performance, specially on 10046 traces. I separated those were included on 11g, to have it as subset. Here it goes:

New 11g SQL transformations (CBQT, CNT, JE, JPPD)

The Oracle cost-based optimizer CBO is constantly being improved in its ability to re-write and transform sub-optimal SQL queries. In general way, CBO work by replacing operations by equivalent optimal when possible, changing clauses or re-grouping to take advantage on in indexes, eliminating subqueries by replacing with joins and not null tests and similar. In 11g new SQL transformations were implemented looking to continue improving this process. They are:

  • Cost-Based Query Transformation (CBQT): This is one of the core mechanisms in CBO, that tries different transformed and untransformed variants of the query and runs them through the costing algorithm. Improvements were done in 11g, specially related to clauses NOT IN into NOT EXISTS.
  • Count Transformation (CNT): If all rows have a value on this column (not null), Oracle CBO can simply count the number of rows. There is no need to actually retrieve the column value. This transformation changes count(col) to count(*).
  • Join Elimination (JE): Join elimination is a query transformation of the Oracle optimizer to remove joins that are not required in a query. Released on 10g, Join Elimination got several improvements and new mechanisms in 11g and even more in 12c.
  • Join Predicate PushDown (JPPD): Allows a view to be joined with index-based nested-loop join method, which may provide a more optimal alternative. The following types of views supports predicate pushdown: UNION ALL/UNION view, Outer-joined view, Anti-joined view, Semi-joined view, DISTINCT view and GROUP-BY view.

Nice?

Hope you enjoy it!