Day 3 - A Suggestion for Improving the Ease of Use...

OK, It's day 3 and I'm beginning to appreciate the advantages of the new forum. Overall, I have to sa that I like it a lot.
However (there's often a 'however') the information columns to the right of the 'Subject' are counterintuitive and confusing. I'd like to suggest reorganising them.
They would be much more useful and informative (as well as being easier and more logical to read and interpret) if the columns were laid out in the following order:
Subject Latest Post New (Replies) Replies Author Ratings
The reasoning behind this is as follows. After knowing what the subject is (and thus whether you are interested or could help) and whether the question is answered or not, its then useful to know who last contributed and when, then whether there have been any new replies since you last looked at the thread. The total number of replies and ratings are very much secondary issues. To that end, the layout of the old forum threads were much, much better.
What do others think?
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."
-- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1559

Could I offer a quick suggestion.
Make the 'solved' button clearly visible rather than in the options menu.
Maybe create a little icon asking if your question has been answered.
Some threads are answered but appear not to be. (Thread creator has replied but may not know where it is).
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I agree with you totally... except the clickless preview though, since Apple doesn't like to give you options to turn stuff off or not use it at all if they go to the trouble of putting it in the OS!
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Suggestions for improving this update in batches of 100 records

I'm currently using the following PL/SQL code to update batches of records in groups of 100 records at a time.
- DB Version : Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0
- There is an index on columns : AHS_CONTACT_TYPE, SYNCSTATUS
- I have to commit the records in batches of 100
-- Mark all the Agents "In Process" (regardless of Owner)
-- Update last_modified_by_id to 'SALESFORCE_LOADED' if the
-- last_modified_by_id column is 'SALESFORCE_SYNC' and
-- the ID column is NOT NULL
   ln_count := 0;
   FOR C IN (SELECT tmpsf_CONTACT.ROWID
               FROM tmpsf_CONTACT
              WHERE ( AHS_CONTACT_TYPE = c_sfContactType_AGENT ) AND
                     ( SYNCSTATUS <> c_sfsyncstatus_IN_PROCESS )
   LOOP
      UPDATE tmpsf_CONTACT
         SET SYNCSTATUS = c_sfsyncstatus_IN_PROCESS,
             LAST_MODIFIED_BY_ID = decode( LAST_MODIFIED_BY_ID, c_username_SALESFORCE_SYNC,
                                                        decode( ID, NULL, LAST_MODIFIED_BY_ID,
                                                                    c_username_SALESFORCE_LOADED),
                                                        LAST_MODIFIED_BY_ID)
       WHERE ( tmpsf_CONTACT.ROWID = c.ROWID );
      -- Commit every 100 records
      IF (ln_count >= 100) THEN
         COMMIT;
         ln_count := 1;
      ELSE
         ln_count := ln_count + 1;
      END IF;
   END LOOP;
-- Catch last batch with any records less then 100
COMMIT;Does anyone have any suggestions about further improving this performance?
Thanks,
Jason

Okay, I have to do it batches per our DBA group.
This is not up for debate...unfortunately. Their
r reasons :
- To keep the rollback segment small Very small apparently, in fact in this test, updating 100 rows of 2 varchar2(200) columns uses 56 KB of rollback. Updating the whole 10,000 rows uses 5 MB. Is this database running on a pocket USB flash drive? Currently costing $30 for 512 MB from Amazon
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SQL> create table t as select rpad('x',200,'x') a, rpad('y',200,'y') b
2 from dual connect by level <= 10000;
Table created.
SQL> update t set a = replace(a,'x','y'),
2    b = replace(b,'y','x')
3 where rownum <= 100;
100 rows updated.
SQL> select
2      used_ublk undo_used_blk,
3      used_ublk * blk_size_kb undo_used_kb,
4      log_io logical_io,
5      cr_get consistent_gets
6 from
7      v$transaction, v$session s,
8      (select distinct sid from v$mystat) m,
9      (select to_number(value)/1024 blk_size_kb
10          from v$parameter where name='db_block_size')
11 where
12      m.sid       =   s.sid
13 and ses_addr    =   saddr;
UNDO_USED_BLK UNDO_USED_KB LOGICAL_IO CONSISTENT_GETS
            7           56        337             227
SQL> rollback;
Rollback complete.
SQL> update t set a = replace(a,'x','y'),
2    b = replace(b,'y','x');
10000 rows updated.
SQL> select
2      used_ublk undo_used_blk,
3      used_ublk * blk_size_kb undo_used_kb,
4      log_io logical_io,
5      cr_get consistent_gets
6 from
7      v$transaction, v$session s,
8      (select distinct sid from v$mystat) m,
9      (select to_number(value)/1024 blk_size_kb
10          from v$parameter where name='db_block_size')
11 where
12      m.sid       =   s.sid
13 and ses_addr    =   saddr;
UNDO_USED_BLK UNDO_USED_KB LOGICAL_IO CONSISTENT_GETS
          626         5008      31898             594
SQL>>
- To prevent tying up the entire table
They don't know much about Oracle these DBAs do they, what exactly do they mean by "tying up the table"?
Maybe they didn't get past the 2 Day DBA manual to the Concepts guide yet?
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/consist.htm#i13945
>
- And the most important, replicated transactions
must be reasonably small for throughout across the
WAN
I don't know what replication engine is being used, but the loop approach uses a huge amount more of REDO than a simple set based update. Most replication applies the REDO to the remote database to synch it up. The loop will cause more data to be transferred over the WAN than a single update.
>
Either way, I want to optimize this code as much as
possible. In fact, today I found a need to do a
similar update again...
Just do the update. It uses less resources and is faster becasue of it. The slow approach does not use fewer database resources because you are throttling it. It is slower because it requires more of everything.

Suggestions to improve the INSERT performance

Hi All,
I have a table which has 170 columns .
I am inserting huge data 50K and more records into this table.
my insert would be look like this.
INSERT INTO /*+ append */ REPORT_DATA(COL1,COL2,COL3,COL4,COL5,COL6)
SELECT DATA1,DATA2,DATA3,DATA4,DATA5,DATA5 FROM TXN_DETAILS
WHERE COL1='CA';
Here i want to insert values for only few columns.Hence i specifies only those column names in insert statement.
But when huge data(50k+) returned by select query then this statement taking very long time to execute(approximately 10 to 15 mins).
Please suggest me to improve this insert statement performance.I am also using 'append' hint.
Thanks in advance.

a - Disable/drop indexes and constraints - It's far faster to rebuild indexes after the data load, all at-once. Also indexes will rebuild cleaner, and with less I/O if they reside in a tablespace with a large block size.
b - Manage segment header contention for parallel inserts - Make sure to define multiple freelist (or freelist groups) to remove contention for the table header. Multiple freelists add additional segment header blocks, removing the bottleneck. You can also use Automatic Segment Space Managementhttp://www.dba-oracle.com/art_dbazine_ts_mgt.htm (bitmap freelists) to support parallel DML, but ASSM has some limitations
c - Parallelize the load - You can invoke parallel DML (i.e. using the PARALLEL and APPEND hint) to have multiple inserts into the same table. For this INSERT optimization, make sure to define multiple freelists and use the SQL "APPEND" option. If you submit parallel jobs to insert against the table at the same time, using the APPEND hint may cause serialization, removing the benefit of parallel jobstreams.
d - APPEND into tables - By using the APPEND hint, you ensure that Oracle always grabs "fresh" data blocks by raising the high-water-mark for the table. If you are doing parallel insert DML, the Append mode is the default and you don't need to specify an APPEND hint. Also, if you're going w/ APPEND, consider putting the table into NOLOGGING mode, which will allow Oracle to avoid almost all redo logging."
insert /*+ append */ into customer values ('hello',';there');
e - Use a large blocksize - By defining large (i.e. 32k) blocksizes for the target table, you reduce I/O because more rows fit onto a block before a "block full" condition (as set by PCTFREE) unlinks the block from the freelist.
f - Use NOLOGGING
f - RAM disk - You can use high-speed solid state disk (RAM-SAN) to make Oracle inserts run up to 300x faster than platter disk.

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