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MemOptimized RowStore in Oracle Database 19c

Since February 13 2019 Oracle Database 19c has been available. I blogged about this feature here and here. Time for an update. So, what’s new in 19c regarding the MemOptimized Rowstore? Fast Lookup Works with JDBC Thin Driver I listed 16 prerequisites for the MemOptimized Rowstore in this blog post. The last one – […]
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2018-09-28
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Regular Expressions in SQL by Examples

Are you reluctant to use regular expressions in SQL? Then continue reading. Examples helped me to understand regular expressions years ago. Thus I hope this collection of simple examples and the tooling tips will encourage you to use regular expressions. It’s not as complicated as it looks at first glance. Once you […]
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2018-08-28
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SmartDB as of 2018-08-21

Introduction This is a transcription of the recorded Ask TOM #SmartDB Office Hours from August 21, 2018, where Bryn Llewellyn presented an updated, narrow definition of the Smart Database Paradigm (SmartDB). It covers the time between 05:55 to 12:19. A big thank you to Bryn for taking the time to clarify the SmartDB definition. […]
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2018-08-28
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SmartDB as of 2018-06-12

This is a transcription of Bryn Llewellyn’s talk Guarding Your Data Behind a Hard Shell PL/SQL API—the Detail recorded at Kscope18. It covers the time between 08:06 to 11:03. This definition was the starting position for my previous SmartDB and PinkDB-related posts. In the meantime, Bryn provided an updated, narrow definition of the Smart […]
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2018-08-25
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Use the Database as Persistence Layer Only

Using the database as a persistence layer only is an anti-pattern. Praful Todkar applies this anti-pattern in How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith. Martin Fowler reviewed this article and published it on his website. Hence it is highly visible. I generally agree with the approach. However, I cannot agree […]
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2018-08-05
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View-API for JOOQ Application

In this blog post, I show how to build a read-only view-API for Oracle’s HR sample schema. And I will use this view-API in a JOOQ application. This application will fully comply with the Pink Database Paradigm (PinkDB). This means the application executes set-based SQL and retrieves data with as few network roundtrips as possible. […]
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2018-07-18
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The Pink Database Paradigm (PinkDB)

1. Introduction The Pink Database paradigm (PinkDB) is an application architecture for database-centric applications. It focuses on relational database systems and is vendor-neutral. The principles are based on the ideas of SmartDB, with some adaptions that make PinkDB easier to apply in existing development environments. An important feature of a PinkDB application […]
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2018-07-18
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Is Your Application SmartDB?

I recently had a few discussions regarding the Smart Database Paradigm (SmartDB) with long-standing customers, new customers, partners, competitors and colleagues. Some people think that using APEX and PL/SQL in their database application is SmartDB. But it is not that simple. Bryn Llewelyn defined the term “Smart Database Paradigm” (SmartDB) in his talk Guarding […]
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2018-06-19
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MemOptimized RowStore in Oracle Database 18c with OCI

On June 10 2018 I blogged about the MemOptimized RowStore in Oracle Database 18c. If you haven’t read this post, it is a good idea to catch up now. I showed that accessing a memoptimized table t4 via the MemOptimized RowStore was around 60% slower than accessing a heap-organized table t1. I […]
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