The Difficulty of Tuning Queries Over a Database Link – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DUAL@LINK Table

A large-ish customer in banking (largest tables on that particular system: ~1 billion rows) once decided to separate the OLTP database from the "log database" in order to better use resources and prevent contention on some tables, as the append-only log database is used heavily for analytic querying of all sorts. That seems to make … Continue reading The Difficulty of Tuning Queries Over a Database Link – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DUAL@LINK Table