Edition Based Redifinition, The key to onine application upgrade. When upgrading an application or implementation based on PL/SQL means in generally compile of the PL / SQL procedures. During this compilationfase end users can not use the application: they must wait until the entire change in the application is implemented. During the implementation can be a bit unpredictable behavior. In Oracle 11g Release 2, this problem is past: by utilizing Edition it is possible to live new code to implement and compile, in one stroke current is made

1. Edition Based Redefinition
The key to online application upgrade
Spreker(s) : Jos van den Oord
Datum : 24 oktober 2012
E-mail : Jos.van.den.oord@transfer-solutions.com Academy
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2. Competency Quiz
Does DBA_OBJECTS show all database objects?
Can you create a before insert table trigger on a view?
Can two different views with the same name exist in a
schema?
Can you replace a PL/SQL object without down-time
while it is in use?
Can all views be created with a WHERE clause?
Can you set the firing order of table triggers?
Do you know how to actualize a stored procedure?
What does it mean to grant USE to a schema?
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3. High availability
Resource Solution
Data Center Data Guard
Server RAC
Storage ASM, RAID, Resumable Transactions
Network VLANs, Multiplexing, Bonding
Corruption RMAN
Software Rolling Patches
Tables & Indexes Online Redefinition/Create/Alter/Rebuild/Move
Parameters Changing of most Oracle parameters
(only 90 of the 350 are not online to change)
PL/SQL Objects Not Possible
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4. Application Upgrade
Creation of new objects
Changing existing objects (alter and create or
replace)
Application
Add, Modify or Drop columns or constraints
Down
Change packages and stored procedures
Recompile
Drop redundant objects
Convert or migrate data
Resume normal operations
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5. What we want for Application Upgrades
Elimination downtime during application role out
System continue without interrupting for users
Upgrade system code and immediately
oprational
Easy roll forward and backward senario of the
application
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6. Edition Based Redefinition (EBR)
A single technology that provides high
availability during Upgrades
No disturbing users
No corrupt data
upgrades that:
Reflects pre-upgrade transactions after upgrade
Seamlessly rolls changes forward and backward
Is safe
Is secure
Is fully supported by Oracle
Is free (no extra licensing cost)
Operational on SE and EE
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7. EBR - Parallel Universes
A revolutionary new capability
Code changes are installed in the privacy of an edition
Editionable object types
PL/SQL objects of all kinds
Synonyms
Views
Three new object types
Edition
Editioning View
Crossedition Trigger
Mandatory for all Oracle databases
[new|upgrade] 11gR2 editioning
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8. Important Oracle RDBMS Changes
New Oracle Objects
Fine Graines Dependency Tracking
Editions – Oracle versioning
Solving exclusive lock on table by creating
online indexes
Cost-Based optimalisations.
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9. Editionable objects
Editionable Not Editionable
• PL/SQL Objects • Tables
• Packages • Materialized Views
• Procedures • DB Links
• Functions • Public Synonyms
• Triggers
• Views
• Synonyms
• Types
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10. The Three New Object Types
• Editions are isolated environments.
• A single schema can have two or more versions
Edition of stored PL / SQL objects, types and views.
[edition:owner:object => unique]
• Oracle New Tables
• Shield around the existing table.
Edition View • References to the table are replaced by
references to the edition view.
Crossedition • Propagates data changes made by the parent
edition into the child edition’s columns,
Trigger or (in hot-rollover) vice-versa
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11. Edition
Introduced in release 11.2
Set compatibility 11.2
Version control system inside the database
New dimension or worlds for an Application
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12. Edition views - The New Oracle Tables
The FROM LIST – only a single table
Select list is column named
Logical projection of a table structure
Edition view and table in same schema
One edition view for a table in given database
edition
An editioning view can NEVER be more
complex than this
No aggregation or concatenation, No Joins, No WHERE clause,
No GROUP BY clause, No ORDER BY clause
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13. Cross Edition Trigger
Temporary – drop after restructured completed
Propagating changes back and forward
between two versions
Forward Crossedition Triggers
Reverse Crossedition Triggers
Crossedition Trigger Interaction with Editions
Firing Order
Follows and Precedes Clauses
Not visible to end-users
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14. EBR exercise/planning
Impacted
Editions
Editions views
TRIGGERSTRIGERSriggersg
Forward crossedition trigers
triggers
Reverse crossedition
Application Upgrade
Change only editioned objects
Make only additive table changes
Change only non-transaction tables
Change the structure of transaction tables non-additively
Support hot rollover
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15. Schema design – NOT EBR
Public synonyms
Views
Grants, Roles, Privs
VPD policies
Table VPD policies
Materialized views
Constraints
Triggers
IDX_1 IDX_2 AQ interfaces
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16. Schema design – EBR
Views
Triggers
Edition Grants, Roles, Privs
VPD policies
Views Synonyms
Source Table Auditing
Crossedition triggers
Materialized views
AQ interfaces
IDX_1 IDX_2 Contraints
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17. Edition Enabled Data Dictionary Views
*_EDITIONS
*_EDITION_COMMENTS
*_VIEWS_AE
*_SOURCE_AE
*_OBJECTS_AE
*_ERRORS_AE
*_EDITIONING_VIEWS_AE
*_EDITIONING_VIEW_COLS_AE
AUD$ (obj$edition)
FGA_LOG$ (obj$edition)
DBA_OBJETCS (edition_name)
DBA_USERS (edition enabled)
V$SESSION (session_edition_id)
AE = All Editions
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18. Edition Enabled Packages
DBMS_EDITIONS_UTILITIES.SET_EDITIONING_VIEWS_READ_
ONLY
DBMS_SESSION.SET_EDITION_DEFERRED
(<EDITION_NAME> )
DBMS_METADATA_UTIL.GET_EDITIONID
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.RESUME_TASK
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.RUN_TASK
DBMS_SQL.PARSE
DBMS_UTILITY.VALIDATE
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19. APEX and EBR (1)
None Options:
Alter session set edition
DBMS_SESSION.set edition_deferred
Apex 4.0
apex_util.set_edition()
dbms_epg.set_dad_attribute('APEX', 'database-
edition', 'HR_RELEASE2');
Syntax error on line 48 of
/home/oracle/OraHome_1/Apache/modplsql/conf/dads.conf:
Invalid command 'PlsqlDatabaseEdition', perhaps mis-spelled or
defined by a module not included in the server
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20. APEX and EBR (2)
Build on – views on - Editioning Views
Four (!) -tier architecture
Edition your Views or PL/SQL Functions
Use Authorization Schemes
UI / APEX
(Regular) View
Editioning View
Table
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21. Considerations by activating Editions
SCN and commits
Switching/activating of editions
Inserts/updates delets full table Locks
Bulk inserts/updates,deletes on a table columns
Change column size
Impacted on other objects
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22. SQLDeveloper support
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23. Demo
Questions
Answers
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