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This document provides an overview of managing data and concurrency in Oracle databases. It covers using SQL to manipulate data through INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE commands. It also describes PL/SQL objects like packages, procedures, functions and triggers. Finally, it discusses how to monitor and resolve locking conflicts that can occur from concurrent transactions through detecting and resolving blocking sessions and deadlocks.

Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Manage data by using SQL Identify and administer PL/SQL objects Describe triggers and triggering events Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

Manipulating Data by Using SQL . SQL> INSERT INTO employees VALUES 2 (9999,'Bob','Builder','bob@abc.net',NULL,SYSDATE, 3 'IT_PROG',NULL,NULL,100,90); 1 row created. SQL> UPDATE employees SET SALARY=6000 2 WHERE EMPLOYEE_ID = 9999; 1 row updated. SQL> DELETE from employees 2 WHERE EMPLOYEE_ID = 9999; 1 row deleted.

INSERT Command Create one row at a time. Insert many rows from another table. SQL> INSERT INTO emp VALUES (9999,'Bob','Builder',100,SYSDATE, 10000); SQL>INSERT INTO emp(Select employee_id , last_name, first_name,department_id, hire_date, salary FROM HR.employees where department_id =30); 6 rows created. 1 2

UPDATE Command Use the UPDATE command to change zero or more rows of a table. SQL> UPDATE EMP SET SALARY= salary +500 Where emp_no =117; 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE EMP Set dept_no= (select dept_no from emp where emp_no =117); 6 rows updated. 1 2

DELETE Command Use the DELETE command to remove zero or more rows from a table. SQL> DELETE FROM emp WHERE emp_no =9000; 0 rows deleted. SQL> DELETE emp; 6 rows deleted. 1 2

MERGE Command Use the MERGE command to perform both INSERT and UPDATE in a single command. MERGE INTO EMP a USING (Select * FROM HR.employees) b ON (a.emp_no =b. employee_id ) WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET a.salary =b.salary WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (emp_no, last_name, first_name, dept_no, hire_date, salary) VALUES (employee_id,last_name, first_name, department_id, hire_date, salary);

COMMIT and ROLLBACK Commands To finish a transaction: COMMIT makes the change permanent ROLLBACK undoes the change SQL> COMMIT; Commit complete.

PL/SQL Oracle’s Procedural Language extension to SQL (PL/SQL) is a fourth-generation programming language (4GL). It provides: Procedural extensions to SQL Portability across platforms and products Higher level of security and data-integrity protection Support for object-oriented programming

Administering PL/SQL Objects Database administrators should be able to: Identify problem PL/SQL objects Recommend the appropriate use of PL/SQL Load PL/SQL objects into the database Assist PL/SQL developers in troubleshooting Use supplied packages for administrative and database maintenance tasks

PL/SQL Objects There are many types of PL/SQL database objects: Package Package body Type body Procedure Function Trigger

Procedures Are used to perform specific actions Pass values in and out by using an argument list Can be called from within other programs using the CALL command

Packages Packages are collections of functions and procedures. Each package should consist of two objects: Package specification Package body Package specification

Built-in Packages Oracle Database comes with several built-in PL/SQL packages that provide: Administration and maintenance utilities Extended functionality Use the DESCRIBE command to view subprograms. SQL>DESC DBMS_LOCK

Triggering Events Examples of Events Event Type LOGON , LOGOFF , STARTUP , SHUTDOWN , SERVERERROR , SUSPEND Database CREATE , DROP , ALTER , GRANT , REVOKE , RENAME DDL INSERT , UPDATE , DELETE DML

Locks Prevent multiple sessions from changing the same data at the same time Are automatically obtained at the lowest possible level for a given statement Do not escalate Transaction 1 SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id=100; SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary+100 3 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 2

Locking Mechanism High level of data concurrency: Row-level locks for inserts, updates, and deletes No locks required for queries Automatic queue management Locks held until the transaction ends (with the COMMIT or ROLLBACK operation) Transaction 1 SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id=101; SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary+100 3 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 2

Data Concurrency UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id =xxx; Transaction x ... ... UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=102; Transaction 3 UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=101; Transaction 2 UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 1 Time: 09:00:00

DML Locks Each DML transaction must acquire two locks: EXCLUSIVE row lock on the row or rows being updated ROW EXCLUSIVE table-level lock on the table containing the rows SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id= 106; 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id= 107; 1 row updated. Transaction 2 Transaction 1

Enqueue Mechanism The enqueue mechanism keeps track of: Sessions waiting for locks Requested lock mode Order in which sessions requested the lock

Lock Conflicts Transaction 1 Transaction 2 Time commit; 16:30:01 1 row updated. Session continues. Many selects, inserts, updates, and deletes during the last 7.5 hours, but no commits or rollbacks! 16:30:00 Session still waiting! SELECT sum(salary) FROM employees; SUM(SALARY) ----------- 692634 9:00:05 UPDATE employees SET COMMISION_PCT=2 WHERE employee_id=101; Session waits enqueued due to lock conflict. UPDATE employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=101; 1 row updated. 9:00:00 UPDATE employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=100; 1 row updated.

Possible Causes of Lock Conflicts Uncommitted changes Long-running transactions Unnecessarily high locking levels

Detecting Lock Conflicts Select Blocking Sessions on the Performance page. Click the Session ID link to view information about the locking session, including the actual SQL statement.

Resolving Lock Conflicts To resolve a lock conflict: Have the session holding the lock commit or roll back Terminate the session holding the lock (in an emergency)

Resolving Lock Conflicts with SQL SQL statements can be used to determine the blocking session and kill it. SQL> alter system kill session '144,8982' immediate; SQL> select sid, serial#, username from v$session where sid in (select blocking_session from v$session) Result: 1 2

Deadlocks Transaction 2 Transaction 1 UPDATE employees SET salary = salary x 1.1 WHERE employee_id = 1000; UPDATE employees SET salary = salary x 1.1 WHERE employee_id = 2000; ORA-00060: Deadlock detected while waiting for resource UPDATE employees SET manager = 1342 WHERE employee_id = 2000; UPDATE employees SET manager = 1342 WHERE employee_id = 1000; 9:00 9:15 9:16

Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Manage data by using SQL Identify and administer PL/SQL objects Describe triggers and triggering events Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

Practice 9 Overview: Managing Data and Concurrency This practice covers the following topics: Identifying locking conflicts Resolving locking conflicts

Less09 Data

1. Managing Data and Concurrency

2. Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Manage data by using SQL Identify and administer PL/SQL objects Describe triggers and triggering events Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

3. Manipulating Data by Using SQL . SQL> INSERT INTO employees VALUES 2 (9999,'Bob','Builder','[email protected]',NULL,SYSDATE, 3 'IT_PROG',NULL,NULL,100,90); 1 row created. SQL> UPDATE employees SET SALARY=6000 2 WHERE EMPLOYEE_ID = 9999; 1 row updated. SQL> DELETE from employees 2 WHERE EMPLOYEE_ID = 9999; 1 row deleted.

4. INSERT Command Create one row at a time. Insert many rows from another table. SQL> INSERT INTO emp VALUES (9999,'Bob','Builder',100,SYSDATE, 10000); SQL>INSERT INTO emp(Select employee_id , last_name, first_name,department_id, hire_date, salary FROM HR.employees where department_id =30); 6 rows created. 1 2

5. UPDATE Command Use the UPDATE command to change zero or more rows of a table. SQL> UPDATE EMP SET SALARY= salary +500 Where emp_no =117; 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE EMP Set dept_no= (select dept_no from emp where emp_no =117); 6 rows updated. 1 2

6. DELETE Command Use the DELETE command to remove zero or more rows from a table. SQL> DELETE FROM emp WHERE emp_no =9000; 0 rows deleted. SQL> DELETE emp; 6 rows deleted. 1 2

7. MERGE Command Use the MERGE command to perform both INSERT and UPDATE in a single command. MERGE INTO EMP a USING (Select * FROM HR.employees) b ON (a.emp_no =b. employee_id ) WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET a.salary =b.salary WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT (emp_no, last_name, first_name, dept_no, hire_date, salary) VALUES (employee_id,last_name, first_name, department_id, hire_date, salary);

8. MERGE Command Full Notes Page

9. COMMIT and ROLLBACK Commands To finish a transaction: COMMIT makes the change permanent ROLLBACK undoes the change SQL> COMMIT; Commit complete.

10. PL/SQL Oracle’s Procedural Language extension to SQL (PL/SQL) is a fourth-generation programming language (4GL). It provides: Procedural extensions to SQL Portability across platforms and products Higher level of security and data-integrity protection Support for object-oriented programming

11. Administering PL/SQL Objects Database administrators should be able to: Identify problem PL/SQL objects Recommend the appropriate use of PL/SQL Load PL/SQL objects into the database Assist PL/SQL developers in troubleshooting Use supplied packages for administrative and database maintenance tasks

12. PL/SQL Objects There are many types of PL/SQL database objects: Package Package body Type body Procedure Function Trigger

13. Functions

14. Procedures Are used to perform specific actions Pass values in and out by using an argument list Can be called from within other programs using the CALL command

15. Packages Packages are collections of functions and procedures. Each package should consist of two objects: Package specification Package body Package specification

16. Package Specification and Body

17. Built-in Packages Oracle Database comes with several built-in PL/SQL packages that provide: Administration and maintenance utilities Extended functionality Use the DESCRIBE command to view subprograms. SQL>DESC DBMS_LOCK

18. Triggers

19. Triggering Events Examples of Events Event Type LOGON , LOGOFF , STARTUP , SHUTDOWN , SERVERERROR , SUSPEND Database CREATE , DROP , ALTER , GRANT , REVOKE , RENAME DDL INSERT , UPDATE , DELETE DML

20. Locks Prevent multiple sessions from changing the same data at the same time Are automatically obtained at the lowest possible level for a given statement Do not escalate Transaction 1 SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id=100; SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary+100 3 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 2

21. Locking Mechanism High level of data concurrency: Row-level locks for inserts, updates, and deletes No locks required for queries Automatic queue management Locks held until the transaction ends (with the COMMIT or ROLLBACK operation) Transaction 1 SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id=101; SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary+100 3 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 2

22. Data Concurrency UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id =xxx; Transaction x ... ... UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=102; Transaction 3 UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=101; Transaction 2 UPDATE hr.employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=100; Transaction 1 Time: 09:00:00

23. Data Concurrency Full Notes Page

24. DML Locks Each DML transaction must acquire two locks: EXCLUSIVE row lock on the row or rows being updated ROW EXCLUSIVE table-level lock on the table containing the rows SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id= 106; 1 row updated. SQL> UPDATE employees 2 SET salary=salary*1.1 3 WHERE employee_id= 107; 1 row updated. Transaction 2 Transaction 1

25. Enqueue Mechanism The enqueue mechanism keeps track of: Sessions waiting for locks Requested lock mode Order in which sessions requested the lock

26. Lock Conflicts Transaction 1 Transaction 2 Time commit; 16:30:01 1 row updated. Session continues. Many selects, inserts, updates, and deletes during the last 7.5 hours, but no commits or rollbacks! 16:30:00 Session still waiting! SELECT sum(salary) FROM employees; SUM(SALARY) ----------- 692634 9:00:05 UPDATE employees SET COMMISION_PCT=2 WHERE employee_id=101; Session waits enqueued due to lock conflict. UPDATE employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=101; 1 row updated. 9:00:00 UPDATE employees SET salary=salary+100 WHERE employee_id=100; 1 row updated.

27. Possible Causes of Lock Conflicts Uncommitted changes Long-running transactions Unnecessarily high locking levels

28. Detecting Lock Conflicts Select Blocking Sessions on the Performance page. Click the Session ID link to view information about the locking session, including the actual SQL statement.

29. Resolving Lock Conflicts To resolve a lock conflict: Have the session holding the lock commit or roll back Terminate the session holding the lock (in an emergency)

30. Resolving Lock Conflicts with SQL SQL statements can be used to determine the blocking session and kill it. SQL> alter system kill session '144,8982' immediate; SQL> select sid, serial#, username from v$session where sid in (select blocking_session from v$session) Result: 1 2

31. Deadlocks Transaction 2 Transaction 1 UPDATE employees SET salary = salary x 1.1 WHERE employee_id = 1000; UPDATE employees SET salary = salary x 1.1 WHERE employee_id = 2000; ORA-00060: Deadlock detected while waiting for resource UPDATE employees SET manager = 1342 WHERE employee_id = 2000; UPDATE employees SET manager = 1342 WHERE employee_id = 1000; 9:00 9:15 9:16

32. Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Manage data by using SQL Identify and administer PL/SQL objects Describe triggers and triggering events Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

33. Practice 9 Overview: Managing Data and Concurrency This practice covers the following topics: Identifying locking conflicts Resolving locking conflicts

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#4: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Manipulating Data by Using SQL Data is manipulated in the database through the use of basic data manipulation language (DML) statements. Although these statements are briefly mentioned in the lesson titled “Moving Data,” they are covered in more detail in this lesson.
#5: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - INSERT Command The basic INSERT statement creates one row at a time. Using what is called a subselect , you cause the INSERT command to copy rows from one table to another. This method is also referred to as an INSERT SELECT statement. The first example in the slide inserts one row into the EMP table. In this case, the EMP table has exactly the same structure as the EMPLOYEES table. If this is not the case, you can name the columns in each table. The values selected in the SELECT statement are associated with the columns of the table being inserted into . The column values match in the same order named in the INSERT and SELECT statements. All that is required is that the data types match: INSERT INTO emp (first_name, last_name) (SELECT first_name, last_name From employees); In this example, the columns that are populated are only the two columns in the EMP table. Using the INSERT SELECT method is a way to load data in bulk from one or more tables into another table. This is shown in the second example. Here you are selecting all rows in department 30 from the EMPLOYEES table and inserting them into the EMP table.
#6: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - UPDATE Command The UPDATE command is used to modify existing rows in a table. The number of rows modified by the UPDATE command depends on the WHERE condition. If the WHERE clause is omitted, all rows are changed. If no rows satisfy the WHERE condition, no rows are modified. In the slide, the first example shows an update to EMP that changes the salary for employee 117. In the second example, you set all department numbers to be the same as the department of employee 117.
#7: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - DELETE Command The DELETE command is used to remove existing rows from a table. The number of rows modified by the DELETE command depends on the WHERE condition. If the WHERE clause is omitted, all rows are removed. If no rows satisfy the WHERE condition, no rows are removed. In the first example, it is not an error when no rows are deleted. The message that is returned states only that zero rows were removed from the table. In the second example, a WHERE clause is not specified. All rows are therefore deleted.
#8: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - MERGE Command The MERGE command performs UPDATE , INSERT , or DELETE in the same command. You can merge data from one source into another, optionally inserting new rows and updating certain columns if a row already exists. Consider the following example of some of the data in the EMPS table: EMPNO LAST_NAME FIRST_NAME DEPT_NO HIRE_DATE SALARY ---------- ------------- --------------- ------- --------- ------ 114 Raphaely Den 30 07-DEC-94 11000 115 Khoo Alexander 30 18-MAY-95 3100 116 Baida Shelli 30 24-DEC-97 2900 117 Tobias Sigal 30 24-JUL-97 2800 118 Himuro Guy 30 15-NOV-98 2600 119 Colmenares Karen 30 10-AUG-99 2500
#9: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - MERGE Command (continued) The EMPLOYEES table has more rows and has the following description: Name Null? Type ------------------- -------- --------- EMPLOYEE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(6) FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(20) LAST_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(25) EMAIL NOT NULL VARCHAR2(25) PHONE_NUMBER VARCHAR2(20) HIRE_DATE NOT NULL DATE JOB_ID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(10) SALARY NUMBER(8,2) COMMISSION_PCT NUMBER(2,2) MANAGER_ID NUMBER(6) DEPARTMENT_ID NUMBER(4) The MERGE command inserts into the EMPS table any rows with a new EMPLOYEE_ID , and updates the existing EMPS table row with new values for the existing columns if the row already exists.
#10: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - COMMIT and ROLLBACK Commands By default, each DML command that is entered is not committed. Several tools (including i SQL*Plus) have options that can be set to commit on each command or group of commands. Before COMMIT or ROLLBACK is issued, the changes are in a pending state. Only the user who has made the change is allowed to see the changed data. Other users can select the same data, but they see the data as it is before any change is made. Other users cannot issue DML on the same data that another user has changed. By default, a user that is trying to make a change on the same row as another user waits until the first user either commits or rolls back the change. This is controlled automatically by the locking mechanism in Oracle Database. Because the locking mechanism is built into the row itself, there is no way for the database to run out of locks.
#11: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - PL/SQL PL/SQL is an Oracle proprietary fourth-generation programming language that provides procedural extensions to SQL. PL/SQL provides a common programming environment for Oracle databases and applications regardless of the operating system or hardware platform. With PL/SQL, you can manipulate data with SQL statements and control program flow with procedural constructs such as IF-THEN , CASE , and LOOP . You can declare constants and variables, define procedures and functions, use collections and object types, and trap run-time errors. A PL/SQL program can call programs written in other languages, such as C, C ++ , and Java. PL/SQL provides protection of data. The caller does not need to know the data structures being read or manipulated to make the call. The caller also does not need permission to access those objects; if the caller has permission to execute the PL/SQL program, that is sufficient. Optionally, there is another mode of permissions for calling PL/SQL, in which the caller must have permission to perform every statement being executed during the called program. Because it runs inside the database, PL/SQL code is very efficient for data-intensive operations, and it minimizes network traffic in applications. For details about procedural constructs and uses of PL/SQL, see the PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference .
#12: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Administering PL/SQL Objects As a DBA, you are not usually responsible for loading PL/SQL code into the database and for assisting developers in troubleshooting. You are also not usually expected to write applications by using PL/SQL, but you should be sufficiently familiar with the different PL/SQL objects to make recommendations to application developers and identify problem objects. In Database Control, you can access PL/SQL objects by clicking the Administration tab under Schema. When you click the object type, you can view, modify, and create the type of PL/SQL object that you have selected.
#13: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - PL/SQL Objects Package: Collection of procedures and functions that are logically related. This part of a package is also called the specification (or spec ) and describes the interface to your applications. It declares the types, variables, constants, exceptions, cursors, and subprograms that are available for use. Package body: Fully defines cursors and subprograms, and thus implements the spec. The body contains implementation details and private declarations that are hidden from the caller. Type body: Collection of methods (procedures and functions) associated with user-defined data types. For more information about user-defined data types, see the Oracle Database Object-Relational Developer’s Guide . Procedure: PL/SQL block that performs a specific action Function: PL/SQL block that returns a single value by using the PL/SQL RETURN command. It is a procedure that has a return value. Trigger: PL/SQL block that is executed when a particular event occurs in the database. These events can be based on a table, such as when a row is inserted into the table. They can also be database events, such as when a user logs in to the database.
#14: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Functions PL/SQL functions are typically used to compute a value. There are many built-in functions, such as SYSDATE , SUM , AVG , and TO_DATE . Developers also create their own functions when writing applications. The code for a PL/SQL function must contain a RETURN statement. PL/SQL functions are created by entering a name, schema, and source code (as shown in the slide). The compute_tax function shown in the slide is created with the following SQL command: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION compute_tax (salary NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER AS BEGIN IF salary<5000 THEN RETURN salary*.15; ELSE RETURN salary*.33; END IF; END; /
#15: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Procedures PL/SQL procedures perform a specific action. Like functions, procedures can accept input values and perform conditional statements such as IF-THEN , CASE , and LOOP . Note: Procedures do not necessarily require input parameters and do not need to return anything.
#16: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Packages Packages are groupings of functions and procedures. There are performance and maintainability advantages in grouping functions and procedures into a single package. Each package typically comprises two separately compiled database objects: Package specification: This object (sometimes known as the package header ) has an object type of PACKAGE and contains only the definition of the procedures, functions, and variables for the package. Package body: This object has an object type of PACKAGE BODY and contains the actual code for the subprograms defined in the package specification. Note: The specification must exist, the body is optional Procedures and functions that are called from within a package are called using dot notation: package_name . procedure or function name In the package shown in the slide, the subprograms can be invoked as follows: SQL> SELECT money.compute_tax(salary) FROM hr.employees WHERE employee_id=107; SQL> EXECUTE money.give_raise_to_all;
#17: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Package Specification and Body Package bodies: Are separate from package specifications. Because of this, the code of the body can be changed and recompiled, and other objects that are dependent on the specification are not marked invalid. Contain the code for subprograms defined in the package specification. This is where the work is done. The specification shows how to call subprograms within the package; the body is the code section. Cannot be compiled unless the package specification has already been compiled. You can create a specification without a body, but you cannot create a body without a specification. May be wrapped to hide details of the code. Wrap is a stand-alone program that obfuscates PL/SQL source code so that you can deliver PL/SQL applications without exposing your source code. For more information about the use of wrap, see the PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference .
#18: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Built-in Packages The built-in PL/SQL packages that are supplied with Oracle Database provide access to extended database functionalities such as advanced queuing, encryption, and file input/output (I/O). They also include many administration and maintenance utilities. Which packages an administrator uses depends on the type of applications that the database serves. The following are a few of the more common PL/SQL administration and maintenance packages: DBMS_STATS : Gathering, viewing, and modifying optimizer statistics DBMS_OUTPUT : Generating output from PL/SQL DBMS_SESSION : Accessing the ALTER SESSION and SET ROLE statements DBMS_SHARED_POOL : Managing the shared pool (for example, flushing it) DBMS_UTILITY : Getting time, CPU time, and version information; computing a hash value; performing many other miscellaneous functionalities DBMS_SCHEDULER : Scheduling functions and procedures that are callable from PL/SQL DBMS_REDEFINITION : Redefining objects online UTL_FILE : Reading and writing to operating system files from PL/SQL Note: For details about these and other built-in packages, see the PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference .
#19: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Triggers Triggers are PL/SQL code objects that are stored in the database and that automatically run or “fire” when something happens. The Oracle database allows many actions to serve as triggering events, including an insert into a table, a user logging in to the database, and someone trying to drop a table or change audit settings. Triggers may call other procedures or functions. It is best to keep the trigger’s code very short and place anything that requires lengthy code in a separate package. DBAs use triggers to assist in value-based auditing (discussed in the lesson titled “ Implementing Oracle Database Security” ), to enforce complex constraints, and to automate many tasks. For example, the SECURE_EMPLOYEES trigger that is shown in the slide logs all DML statements to a holding table.
#20: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Triggering Events There are three categories of events that can be used to fire a trigger: DML event triggers fire when statements modify data. DDL event triggers fire when statements create or in some way modify an object. Database event triggers fire when specified triggering events occur in the database. Most triggers can be specified to fire either before the event is allowed to occur or after it has occurred. For DML events, the trigger can be designed to fire once for the statement or with each row that is modified.
#21: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Locks Before the database allows a session to modify data, the session must first lock the data that is being modified. A lock gives the session exclusive control over the data so that no other transaction can modify the locked data until the lock is released. Transactions can lock individual rows of data, multiple rows, or even entire tables. Oracle Database supports both manual and automatic locking. Automatically acquired locks always choose the lowest possible level of locking to minimize potential conflicts with other transactions.
#22: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Locking Mechanism The locking mechanism is designed to provide the maximum possible degree of data concurrency within the database. Transactions that modify data acquire row-level locks rather than block-level or table-level locks. Modifications to objects (such as table moves) obtain object-level locks rather than whole database or schema locks. Data queries do not require a lock, and a query succeeds even if someone has locked the data (always showing the original, prelock value reconstructed from undo information). When multiple transactions need to lock the same resource, the first transaction to request the lock obtains it. Other transactions wait until the first transaction completes. The queue mechanism is automatic and requires no administrator interaction. All automatic locking is released on commit. Transactions are completed when a COMMIT or ROLLBACK is issued. In the case of a failed transaction, the same background process that automatically rolls back any changes from the failed transaction releases all locks held by that transaction.
#23: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Data Concurrency The lock mechanism defaults to a fine-grained, row-level locking mode. Different transactions can be updating different rows within the same table without interfering with one another. Although the default model is to lock at the row level, Oracle Database supports manual locking at higher levels if needed: SQL> LOCK TABLE employees IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; Table(s) Locked. With the preceding statement, any other transaction that tries to update a row in the locked table must wait until the transaction that issued the lock request completes. EXCLUSIVE is the strictest lock mode. The following are the other lock modes: ROW SHARE : Permits concurrent access to the locked table but prohibits sessions from locking the entire table for exclusive access ROW EXCLUSIVE : Is the same as ROW SHARE , but also prohibits locking in SHARE mode. The ROW EXCLUSIVE locks are automatically obtained when updating, inserting, or deleting data. ROW EXCLUSIVE locks allow multiple readers and one writer. SHARE : Permits concurrent queries but prohibits updates to the locked table. A SHARE lock is required (and automatically requested) to create an index on a table. However, online index creation requires a ROW SHARE lock that is used when building the index.
#24: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Data Concurrency (continued) Share locks allow multiple readers and no writers. Share locks are also used transparently when deleting or updating rows in a parent table that has a child table with foreign key constraints on the parent. SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE : Is used to query a whole table and to allow others to query rows in the table, but prohibits others from locking the table in SHARE mode or updating rows EXCLUSIVE : Permits queries on the locked table but prohibits any other activity on it. An EXCLUSIVE lock is required to drop a table. Like any request for a lock, manual lock statements wait until all sessions that either already have locks or have previously requested locks release their locks. The LOCK command accepts a special argument that controls the waiting behavior NOWAIT . NOWAIT returns control to you immediately if the specified table is already locked by another session: SQL> LOCK TABLE hr.employees IN SHARE MODE NOWAIT; LOCK TABLE hr.employees IN SHARE MODE NOWAIT * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified It is usually not necessary to manually lock objects. The automatic locking mechanism provides the data concurrency needed for most applications. Oracle recommends that you avoid using manual locks, especially when developing applications. Severe performance issues often occur from unnecessarily high locking levels.
#25: DML Locks Each DML transaction obtains two locks: An EXCLUSIVE row lock on the row or rows being updated A ROW EXCLUSIVE table-level lock on the table being updated. This prevents another session from locking the whole table (possibly to drop or truncate it) while the change is being made. A ROW EXCLUSIVE lock on the table stops DDL from changing the dictionary metadata in the middle of an uncommited transaction. This preserves dictionary integrity and read consistency across the life of a transaction.
#26: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Enqueue Mechanism Requests for locks are automatically queued. As soon as the transaction holding a lock is completed, the next session in line receives the lock. The enqueue mechanism tracks the order in which locks are requested and the requested lock mode. Sessions that already hold a lock can request that the lock be converted without having to go to the end of the queue. For example, suppose a session holds a SHARE lock on a table. The session can request that the SHARE lock be converted to an EXCLUSIVE lock. If nobody else already has an EXCLUSIVE or SHARE lock on the table, the session holding the SHARE lock is granted an EXCLUSIVE lock without having to wait in the queue again. Note: There are two categories of waiters for enqueues: those waiting without shared ownership and those with shared ownership that do not choose to escalate the lock level. Waiters in the second category are known as converters , which are always given priority over normal waiters even if they have been waiting less time.
#27: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Lock Conflicts Lock conflicts occur often but are usually resolved through time and the enqueue mechanism. In certain rare cases, a lock conflict may require administrator intervention. In the case in the slide, transaction 2 obtains a lock on a single row at 9:00:00 and neglects to commit, leaving the lock in place. Transaction 1 attempts to update the entire table, requiring a lock on all rows, at 9:00:05. Transaction 1 is blocked by transaction 2 until transaction 2 commits at 16:30:01. A user attempting to perform transaction 1 would almost certainly contact the administrator for help in this case, and the DBA would have to detect and resolve the conflict.
#28: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Possible Causes of Lock Conflicts The most common cause of lock conflicts is an uncommitted change, but there are a few other possible causes: Long-running transactions: Many applications use batch processing to perform bulk updates. These batch jobs are usually scheduled for times of low or no user activity, but in some cases, they may not have finished or may take too long to run during the low activity period. Lock conflicts are common when transaction and batch processing are being performed simultaneously. Unnecessarily high locking levels: Not all databases support row-level locking (Oracle added support for row-level locks in 1988 with release 6). Some databases still lock at the page or table level. Developers writing applications that are intended to run on many different databases often write their applications with artificially high locking levels so that Oracle Database behaves similarly to these less capable database systems. Developers who are new to Oracle also sometimes unnecessarily code in higher locking levels than are required by Oracle Database.
#29: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Detecting Lock Conflicts Use the Blocking Sessions page in Enterprise Manager to locate lock conflicts. Conflicting lock requests are shown in hierarchical layout, showing the session holding the lock at the top and, below that, any sessions that are enqueued for the lock. For each session involved in the conflict, you are given the username, session ID, and number of seconds for which the session has been waiting. Drill down to the session ID to see actual SQL statements that are currently being executed or requested by the session. The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) also automatically detects lock conflicts and can advise you on inefficient locking trends.
#30: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Resolving Lock Conflicts To resolve a lock conflict, the session holding the lock must release it. The best way to have the session release the lock is to contact the user and ask that the transaction be completed. In an emergency, it is possible for the administrator to terminate the session holding the lock by clicking the Kill Session button. Remember that when a session is killed, all work within the current transaction is lost (rolled back). A user whose session is killed must log in again and redo all work since the killed session’s last commit. Users whose sessions have been killed receive the following error the next time they try to issue a SQL statement: ORA-03135: connection lost contact Note: The PMON session sniper can automatically kill sessions due to idle timeout, and this can be done by using profiles or Resource Manager.
#31: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Resolving Lock Conflicts Using SQL Session manipulation, like most other tasks in Enterprise Manager, can also be done by issuing SQL statements. The v$session table contains details of all connected sessions. blocking_session is the session ID of the session that is blocking. If you query for SID and SERIAL# (where SID matches a blocking session ID), you have the information needed to perform the kill session operation. Note: Database Resource Manager can be used to automatically log out sessions that block others and are idle.
#32: Oracle Database 11 g : Administration Workshop I 9 - Deadlocks A deadlock is a special example of a lock conflict. Deadlocks arise when two or more sessions wait for data that has been locked by the other. Because each is waiting for the other, neither can complete their transaction to resolve the conflict. Oracle Database automatically detects deadlocks and terminates the statement with an error. The proper response to that error is either commit or rollback, which releases any other locks in that session so that the other session can continue its transaction. In the example in the slide, transaction 1 must either commit or roll back in response to the deadlock detected error. If it commits, it must resubmit the second update to complete its transaction. If it performs a rollback, it must resubmit both statements to accomplish its transaction.
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