Regular Expressions with SUBEXPR

Hi All!

Did you know since 11g the REGEXP_INSTR and REGEXP_SUBSTR functions include a new SUBEXPR parameter that limits the pattern match to a specific subexpression in the search pattern?

Also, a new function, REGEXP_COUNT, returns the number of times the search pattern appears in source string.

Below a simple example of each one:

SQL> SELECT REGEXP_INSTR('1234567890', '(123)(4(56)(78))', 1, 1, 0, 'i', 3) FROM dual;

REGEXP_INSTR('1234567890','(123)(4(56)(78))',1,1,0,'I',3)
---------------------------------------------------------
                                                        5

SQL> SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR('1234567890', '(123)(4(56)(78))', 1, 1, 'i', 3) FROM dual;

RE
--
56

SQL> SELECT REGEXP_COUNT('123 123 123 123', '123', 1, 'i') FROM dual;

REGEXP_COUNT('123123123123','123',1,'I')
----------------------------------------
                                       4

Cheers!

Oracle: Create Disabled Triggers

Hey,
I believe you may know about this already, but in case its something new to you: Yes, this is possible since 11g!

Prior to 11g, it was only possible to create triggers in the enabled state, and after creating to disable them. Since 11g they can be explicitly enabled or disabled at creation time using clause ENABLE or DISABLE. As per example:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER disabled_trigger
BEFORE INSERT ON table_example
FOR EACH ROW
DISABLE
BEGIN NULL; END;
/

If didn’t know it yet. Np! You know it now! 😀

Cheers!

Oracle SQL Join Factorization Transformation (JFT)

Hi All!
Following the line of last week post, let’s talk today about the JFT…

Oracle SQL Join Factorization Transformation (JFT)

The UNION operator is great for merging the results of multiple queries that return similar rowsets, essentially executing each query separately and merging the results together into a single result set. Oracle 11g release 2 come with improvements for SQL optimizer on how Oracle handles UNION ALL performance with the new join factorization transformation (JFT). The Join Factorization Transformation applies only to UNION ALL queries.

The following example show how the optimizer improves the performance of UNION ALL by dynamically re-writing a UNION ALL query into a more efficient form using an in-line view:

Original Query:

select t1.c1, t2.c2     
    from t1, t2, t3     
    where t1.c1 = t2.c1 and t1.c1 > 1 and t2.c2 = 2 and t2.c2 = t3.c2    
union all     
    select t1.c1, t2.c2     
    from t1, t2, t4     
    where t1.c1 = t2.c1 and t1.c1 > 1 and t2.c3 = t4.c3;

Re-Written Query:

select t1.c1, VW_JF_1.item_2
     from t1, (select t2.c1 item_1, t2.c2 item_2
                    from t2, t3
                    where t2.c2 = t3.c2 and t2.c2 = 2
               union all
                    select t2.c1 item_1, t2.c2 item_2
                    from t2, t4
                    where t2.c3 = t4.c3) VW_JF_1
     where t1.c1 = VW_JF_1.item_1 and t1.c1 > 1;

Nice, right?
Cheers!

Oracle: “Invisible” Locks!

Have you ever heard:
“My session was killed. I’m trying again. There is no locks. But My SQL doesn’t run!”

By default, when a session is disconnected from Oracle, the SQLs uncommitted are undone (rollback). So, in case of a long routing there is a probably a rollback in place.

How Oracle rollback take that long? Well, it’s Oracle mechanism. The RDBMS basically assume you know what your are doing and start writing the new blocks so the commit will be very quick. Which, however, is bad in case of rollbacks.

How to check if this is your case?

select ktuxeusn, to_char(sysdate,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') "Time", ktuxesiz, ktuxesta
from x$ktuxe
where ktuxecfl = 'DEAD'
4 /

KTUXEUSN Time KTUXESIZ KTUXESTA
---------- -------------------- ---------- ----------------
31 07-APR-2018 16:48:53 17705 ACTIVE
48 07-APR-2018 16:48:53 108856 ACTIVE

Hm.. What can I do? Not much really, we need to wait the rollback to complete.
One thing that can be done to increase the rollback is changing the fast_start_parallel_rollback parameter, as per:

SQL> show parameters roll

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
fast_start_parallel_rollback string LOW
rollback_segments string
transactions_per_rollback_segment integer 5
SQL> alter system set fast_start_parallel_rollback=HIGH;

System altered.

Hope it helps!
Cheers!

Oracle 11g / 12c identified by values – set an Oracle password to its current value without knowing the password

This post will be a quick one. I needed to set a Oracle password as it was about to expire but the client did not want to change the password itself.

The simplest way to get the encrypted password was:

select name, password from sys.user$ where name=‘USER’;

But after Oracle 11g/12c seems a better option for security ends to use DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl or select the spare4 column on sys.user$

select name, spare4 from sys.user$ where name=‘USER’;

or

set long 9999999
set longc 9999999
select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('USER','DBSNMP') from dual;

And how to set this password back to the user?

alter user [USER] identified by values '[encrypted password]';

 

Hope it helps!

Statspack top queries script by elapsed time

Hi all,

I was engaged on a report request that I needed to gather to get the TOP SQL by elapsed time and using Statspack. I got those and than I was asked to it on the following week and on the following, and you may see when this is going. So I created a script which would give is a report and I would not have to do it manually ever again 🙂

Usage: long_run_sql.sh [-h ] [ -r 

Where:
If no parameters are used 120 minutes and 7 days will be used as default for History, 5 minutes for current running
-r = Set the time in minutes for the current running SQLs
-o = Specifies the minutes to be used for the long running SQLs History
-d = set the time period wanted for the execution history, default is 7 days
-h = Shows this help message

Might still have some bugs but it well enough to share here 🙂

You have some parameters that you need to change at the top, to suite your environment and of course have Statspack working and change the sqlplus connection line

Some tweaks are required as no 2 environments are never 100% alike. But still forth the work.

#!/bin/bash
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Creates a report, using statspack, of the long running sqls from database
#
# History:
# Feb-21-2018 - Elisson Almeida - Created.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#usage
### Environment setup
### Global variables
DIR=/home/oracle/scripts
LOG=/home/oracle/logs
DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
NAME=long_running_sql_report
OUTPUT_FILE=${LOG}/${NAME}_${DATE}.log
ERROR_FILE=${LOG}/${NAME}.err
TMP_FILE=$DIR/$.tmp
CONFIG_EMAIL_TO=
PATH=
ORACLE_SID=
ORACLE_BASE=
ORACLE_HOME=
#tns-admin if needed otherwise comment out
#TNS_ADMIN
RUNNING=5
HISTORY=120
Help()
{
echo "Usage: long_run_sql.sh [-h ] [ -r 

Hope it helps!

Elisson Almeida

Disabling PL/SQL Warnings

Hi all!
So, the DBA keep insisting that the Procedure need to compile without warnings? Easy!
This is actually a nice option if you are compiling a code in a client and don’t want to show that your code has warnings, which is kind of ok, once it’s almost impossible to code without warnings.

And this is not even new. Have a look on this documentation from 10.2.

Ok, so how to do it?

ALTER SESSION SET plsql_warnings = 'disable:all';

Have a look in the example below:

SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE plw5001
  2  IS
  3     a   BOOLEAN;
  4     a   PLS_INTEGER;
  5  BEGIN
  6     a := 1;
  7     DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Will not compile?');
  8  END plw5001;
  9  /
Warning: Procedure created with compilation errors.

SQL>
SQL> SHOW ERRORS
Errors for PROCEDURE PLW5001:

LINE/COL ERROR
-------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
4/4 PLW-05001: previous use of 'A' (at line 3) conflicts with this
use

6/4 PL/SQL: Statement ignored
6/4 PLS-00371: at most one declaration for 'A' is permitted
SQL>
SQL> ALTER SESSION SET plsql_warnings = 'disable:all';

Session altered.

SQL>
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE plw5001
2 IS
3 a BOOLEAN;
4 a PLS_INTEGER;
5 BEGIN
6 DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line ('Will not compile?');
7 END plw5001;
8 /

Procedure created.

 

Script to Setup ADRCI Policies

Hi all!
So, today just sharing some useful scripts to configure, set and check on databases and users.

This is specially useful for environments with several databases under different users, considering a possible server consolidation strategy.

# Script to Check on Current Configuration:

[root@greporasrv ~]# cat adrci-check.sh
su - $1 -c 'export ORAENV_ASK=NO ; ORACLE_SID=$2 ; . oraenv ; for f in $(adrci exec="show homes" | grep -v "ADR Homes:" | grep -v "clients") ; do adrci exec="set home $f; show control;" ; done'

# Script to Set New Configuration
On this example: (SHORTP_POLICY = 168, LONGP_POLICY = 720).

[root@greporasrv ~]# cat adrci-set.sh
ORAUSER=$1
export SID=$2
su - $ORAUSER -c 'export ORAENV_ASK=NO ; ORACLE_SID='$SID' ; . oraenv ; for f in $(adrci exec="show homes" | grep -v "ADR Homes:" | grep -v "clients") ; do adrci exec="set home $f; set control \(SHORTP_POLICY = 168, LONGP_POLICY = 720\);" ; done'

# To run them informing OSUSER and SID:

./adrci-check.sh OWNER SID
./adrci-set.sh OWNER SID

# Master one: Script to set for all DBs/Users:

[root@greporasrv ~]# cat adrci-gen.sh
for h in $(grep -v "^#" /etc/oratab | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":";} {if (NF) print $2}' | sort -u)
do
ORAOWN=`ls -ld $h | cut -d " " -f 3`
# validate user?
# get a SID to use for this home
SID=`grep $h /etc/oratab | grep -v '^\*:' | cut -d ":" -f 1 | tail -1`

# Generating the code to check ADRCI settings on this OH
./adrci-check.sh $ORAOWN $SID

# Generating the code to change ADRCI settings on this OH
./adrci-set.sh $ORAOWN $SID
done

Nice, right?
Hope it helps. Cheers!

Auditing Logons with Triggers

Hello all!
So, I was attending a client who wanted to audit logon on database without Advanced Security pack. Complicated? Not at all.

Performatic? eehh, not really the best option, but Oracle is not really good for opening sessions anyway (this is why we have connection pools), so I consider this not bad…

Ok, how to do it?

A sequence for ID control:

create sequence sys.logon_capture_seq;
A Table for logon logging:
create table sys.logon_capture (
 id                     number,
 capture_time           date,
 authenticated_identity varchar2(30),
 authentication_method  varchar2(30),
 identification_type    varchar2(30),
 network_protocol       varchar2(30),
 session_user           varchar2(30),
 os_user                varchar2(30),
 host                   varchar2(30),
 ip_address             varchar2(30),
 program                varchar2(30),
 module                 varchar2(30),
 action                 varchar2(30),
 service_name           varchar2(30))
tablespace logon_capture;

* Here is an important point: Be always sure to have enough space on this tablespace, otherwise all new connections can be frozen.

Create the logon trigger:

create or replace trigger SYS.trg_capture_logons
after logon on database
when (SYS_CONTEXT ('USERENV', 'SESSION_USER') not in ('SYS'))
begin
  insert into sys.logon_capture (id,capture_time,authenticated_identity,authentication_method,identification_type,network_protocol,session_user,os_user,host,ip_address,program,module,action,service_name)
  select
    sys.logon_capture_seq.nextval,
    sysdate,
    substr(sys_context('userenv','authenticated_identity'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','authentication_method'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','identification_type'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','network_protocol'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','session_user'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','os_user'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','host'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','ip_address'),1,30),
    substr(program,1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','module'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','action'),1,30),
    substr(sys_context('userenv','service_name'),1,30)
  from v$session
  where sid = sys_context('userenv','sid');
  commit;
exception
  when others then null;
end;
/

Know what is a good idea? a cleanup job, keeping only the last 6 month of “audit” data:

begin
  DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB (
   job_name             => 'SYS.PURGE_LOGON_CAPTURE',
   job_type             => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',
   job_action           => 'begin delete from sys.logon_capture where capture_time < add_months(sysdate, -6); commit; end;',    number_of_arguments  => 0,
   start_date           => trunc(sysdate+1) + 23/24,
   repeat_interval      => 'FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=23;BYMINUTE=40;BYSECOND=0',
   enabled              => false,
   auto_drop            => false,
   comments             => '');
end;
/
exec DBMS_SCHEDULER.ENABLE ( name => 'SYS.PURGE_LOGON_CAPTURE' );
select owner, enabled from dba_scheduler_jobs where job_name = 'PURGE_LOGON_CAPTURE'

Hope it helps you!

Changing initrans on a Partitioned Index

Hi all,

We were having high ITL waits and high number of deadlocks (due to the hanging transactions waiting on the ITL on the data block) on a table and index and part of the fix was to increase the INITRANS on the table and on the index.

INITRANS is a physical attribute that determines the initial number of concurrent transaction entries allocated within each data block for a given table/index/cluster. Every transaction that updates a block has to acquire an Interested Transaction List (ITL) slot, in order to store the transaction id, rollback information and ultimately lock the necessary row/index entry within the block.

For an existing object it needs to be rebuild as INITRANS is a physical attribute on the Oracle datablock. So if you change on a table and you want it to take effect for the current data you need to move the table or one partition for example.

If you are doing this type of change on a partitioned index you need to change the index default attribute as well rebuild the index partition or the entire index.

But one thing caught my eye while working on this as after setting the new INITRANS default attribute and rebuilt the index online it did not changed the INITRANS values.

See below the execution on a test system

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