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Oracle: How to gather stats in a logical standby database?

I have a Primary and a (logical) Standby Database. The Schema 'APP' gets synced. Now a User has performance issues running a query against some tables in this 'APP' schema of the Standby Database. On ...
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Why does my query run faster after I force full table scan?

I have a MERGE statement that took forever to execute the select as the table it is running from (SUB_DATA) is rather big (read 1.4 Tb, 700 million rows). My SELECT looks like this. SELECT ...
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Why does the query cost change so much and how to prevent it

The query causing me the issue is too big, but the piece that seems to be the core is quite simple, I will try to go with that: The query has an structure like: SELECT ... a lot of stuff ... ...
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How to load XML data into an oracle db table ?

Is there a way to load the XML format data into an Oracle 11g DB table directly ? I mean, Can we write a Stored Procedure to accomplish the same in a more efficient way with the best performance ? ...
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Help to understand explain plan in Oracle

I am running a query in some big tables, and although it runs fine even tough is a lot of data, I'd like to understand what part of it weighs on the execution. Unfortunately I am not too good with ...
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Query taking long on table with low record count

I have an Oracle flat table that grew to just below 800MB. The table was truncated and new records are being inserted. Currently there are <40 records in the table but a select * takes >30secs. ...
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Learning to Optimize SQL Queries and Understand Execution Plans - Resources?

I find myself writing more and more SQL queries at work (mostly Oracle 11g, but some SQL Server 2005-2008) and have started creating some pretty complex views for the rest of the analyst team. They ...
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Oracle ash report

Recently, i have been handed over with an ash report from DBA. To me this report is like french. I have no idea what it is about and what all is written in this report. Can someone please guide me in ...