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	<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog</link>
	<description>A blog about Oracle - Un blog riguardo Oracle</description>
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		<title>xplan: dbms_metadata.get_ddl for tables referenced by the plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a minor but useful new feature, xplan is now able to integrate into its report the DDL of tables (and indexes) referenced by the plan, calling dbms_metadata.get_ddl transparently. 
This is mostly useful to get more details about referenced tables' constraints and partitions definition - to complement their CBO-related statistics that xplan reports about.
This feature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2010/02/09/xplan-dbms_metadataget_ddl-for-tables-referenced-by-the-plan/</link>
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		<title>tweet &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For people that have asked - I'm not blogging simply because I'm feverishly working on a tool of mine that I'm very fond of :)
Guess what it does from the following next two screenshots ...


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		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2010/01/06/tweet/</link>
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		<title>11gR2: new algorithm for fast refresh of on-commit materialized views</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post investigates the improvements that have been made in 11gR2 to the fast refresh engine of materialized views (MVs) that are set to be automatically refreshed at commit time. We speak about join-only materialized views only in this post, as always with the help of a test case.
As noted in the post of mine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/11/22/11gr2-new-algorithm-for-fast-refresh-of-on-commit-materialized-views/</link>
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		<title>11gR2: materialized view logs changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post we are going to discuss some 11gR2 changes to materialized view logs that are aimed at increasing the performance of the fast-refresh engine of materialized views (MVs), especially the on-commit variant. 
The MV logs, in 10gr2, now comes in two flavours: the traditional (and still the default) timestamp-based one and the brand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/11/03/11gr2-materialized-view-logs-changes/</link>
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		<title>CBO: NewDensity for Frequency Histograms,11g-10.2.0.4 (densities part IV)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we have seen in the previous posts of this series, in 11g a new figure named "NewDensity" has been introduced as a replacement for the "density" column statistic for columns whose histogram has been collected; this change has been backported in 10.2.0.4 also. 
In the previous post we discussed how NewDensity influences the CBO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/10/23/cbo-newdensity-for-frequency-histograms11g-10204-densities-part-iv/</link>
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		<title>CBO: &#8220;NewDensity&#8221; replaces &#8220;density&#8221; in 11g, 10.2.0.4 (densities part III)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post we are going to explore and explain the rationale for the formula used by the CBO to compute the "NewDensity" figure that replaces, from 10.2.0.4 onwards, the "density" column statistic in the cardinality estimation formulae for columns with height-balanced (HB) histograms defined.
In a previous post, we already discussed the pre-10.2.0.4 scenario: we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/10/16/cbo-newdensity-replaces-density-in-11g-10204-densities-part-iii/</link>
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		<title>CBO: the formula for the &#8220;density&#8221; column statistic (densities part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post we are going to explore and explain the rationale for the formula used by dbms_stats to compute the "density" column statistic, used by the CBO in versions less than 10.2.0.4 to estimate the cardinality of a class of SQL statements. In the next post, we will speak about its replacement, named "NewDensity" [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/10/10/cbo-the-formula-for-the-density-column-statistic-densities-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>CBO: about the statistical definition of &#8220;cardinality&#8221; (densities part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's explore the concept of cardinality from the point of view of the statistician; this is both to get a clearer vision of the matter (i.e. for fun) and to path the way for understanding the rationale for the "density" statistics as calculated by dbms_stats (the topic of an upcoming post).
Let's consider a statement with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/10/03/cbo-about-the-statistical-definition-of-cardinality-densities-part-i/</link>
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		<title>An interview with Mark Townsend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While attending the 11gR2 launch event in Milan last Thursday, I had the distinguished opportunity (invited, as a blogger, by the Oracle team that was organizing the event) to meet Mark Townsend and exchange a few words about the new features of 11gR2 and the Oracle database in general as well. 
For those who don't [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/09/29/an-interview-with-mark-townsend/</link>
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		<title>CBO: the &#8220;non-empty result set&#8221; assumption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBO assumes that SELECT statements are always going to retrieve at least one row - even if this is not necessarily the case, of course. Understanding why this is done is both useful and fascinating.
We must start from the very beginning and remember that one of the most important tasks of the CBO is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adellera.it/blog/2009/09/03/cbo-the-non-empty-result-set-assumption/</link>
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