Oracle – Why Is Toad Asking Me To Commit/Rollback A SELECT With No Transaction?

Commit or rollback a SELECT, really? Occasionally, you would be working with your favorite Oracle tool and when you are ready to close the tool, it will prompt you to either commit or rollback your work. “What work?”, you wonder. The problem is, you have only done SELECT’s. Why is it prompting you to commit …

Oracle REDO – A Basic Explanation

In an earlier post, we saw how Oracle’s UNDO works in very basic terms. REDO is another critical aspect that goes hand in hand with UNDO. Let us get the basics of REDO sorted out here. UNDO and REDO In its most basic sense UNDO is information saved to get back in case a ROLLBACK …

Oracle – Is my APPEND Hint Being Ignored? How To Find Out?

Why is the APPEND hint so great? In a prior post, we extolled the virtues of the APPEND hint (AKA Direct Path Insert). It is a great option to use • UNDO usage is negligible. It is only generated for index maintenance and meta data changes. The keyword is index maintenance – indexes generate UNDO. …

Oracle Gotcha For The SQL Server Developer – DDL’s COMMIT Transactions Implicitly!

If you are primarily a SQL Server developer and you are moving to Oracle, this is one of the nastiest surprises in store for you. You are so used to rolling back everything including DDL in SQL Server transactions but in Oracle, DDL inside transactions act as COMMIT. Fear not though, there are a ton …

Oracle UNDO – A Basic Explanation

You might have heard the terms UNDO and REDO thrown around in conversations around space usage. In this tip, let us get a basic idea of what UNDO (formerly called ROLLBACK) is in Oracle. I promise you that this will be an interesting read and you will be happy you read this. Unlike SQL Server …