Month: January 2015

After table maintenance, like move or split partition, underlying indexes are marked as unusable. This boils down to segment reorganisation, not dictionary change. For instance : CREATE TABLE t(x NUMBER) PARTITION BY RANGE(x) (PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE)); CREATE INDEX i ON t (x); INSERT INTO t VALUES (1); ALTER TABLE T SPLIT PARTITION […]

Not easy to detect, and depending on the product (agent/database), it may have only limited side effects. Like external jobs not running, operating systems statistics not collected. But it is not always easy to diagnose. For instance if you patch from OMS 12cR2 to 12cR3, and you run the root.sh only in 12cR2, they are […]

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