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Oracle 12c background processes

(Venzi) Here is yet another Oracle 12c post to add to all those out there and this one starts with a question: How many background processes exist in an Oracle DB environment to date? Just take a moment and take a guess, if you haven’t already seen the bold number coming up. The answer is: 108!

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Moving tablespaces

(Josh Berkus) PostgreSQL has a feature called “tablespaces” which allows you to put separate data directories on different mount points. There’s a variety of uses for this, including: storing data somewhere different from $PGDATA, putting your hot tables on SSD, or expanding the amount of storage s