Excited to be the newest member of the AskTom Team

A little over a year ago Connor McDonald and Chris Saxon took over answering questions posted on AskTom, which covers many topics related to building applications on top of the Oracle Database. Connor and Chris have done an amazing job of keeping up with the constant influx of questions, with nearly 16,000 answered to date.

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to join Connor and Chris in answering questions submitted AskTom. So, if you have any burning questions regarding the Oracle Database or building applications on top of the Oracle Database, you can submit them at AskTom and Connor, Chris or I will get back to you!

Online Statistics Gathering

Although there have been a number of significant changes to the Oracle Database in 12c, some of my favorite new features are actually the small enhancements, designed to make your life a little easier. So, I decided to spend some time this year sharing the details on these small but extremely useful features.

One such enhancement is Online Statistics Gathering.

Whenever an index is created, Oracle automatically gathers optimizer statistics for that index. The database piggybacks the statistics gather on the full data scan and sort operation necessary for the index creation. This approach has worked so well since it was introduced in 9i, few people even realize it’s happening.

Although there have been a number of significant changes to the Oracle Database in 12c, some of my favorite new features are actually the small enhancements, designed to make your life a little easier. So, I decided to spend some time this year sharing the details on these small but extremely useful features.

One such enhancement is Online Statistics Gathering.

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Coming Soon!

I recently switched my role in the Oracle Database Development team from the product management team for Database In-Memory and Advance Compression to be a database evangelist.

With this new role comes a new blog and an opportunity for me to broaden the topics I blog about. I’ll also have an opportunity to share my own opinion and approach to optimizing your Oracle investment.

I hope you will join me on this new journey and will learn a little something along the way!

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