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In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham speak with Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar about the enhanced performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression, the different compression levels, and how to achieve the best compression for your tables. Then, they delve into Fast Ingest, what's new in Oracle Database 23ai, and the benefits of these improvements. Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript:

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Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started!

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Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor.

Nikita: Hi everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about the 23ai improvements in time and data handling and data storage with Senior Principal Instructor Serge Moiseev. Today, we're going to discuss the enhancements that have been made to the performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression. We'll look at how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai, learn about the changes that have been made, talk about how to use this compression in 23ai, and look at some performance factors. After that, we'll move on to Fast Ingest, the improvements in 23ai, and how it is managed.

01:15 Lois: Yeah, this is a packed episode and to take us through all this, we have Bill Millar back on the podcast. Bill is a Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor with Oracle University. Hi Bill! Thanks for joining us. So, let's start with how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai. What can you tell us about it?

Bill: We support all kinds of platforms from the Database Enterprise Edition on up to the high engineered systems for that and even the Exadata Cloud at the Customer. We have four different levels of compression. One is considered the warehouse compression where we do a COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY LOW and COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH. The COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH is the default, unless another compression level is specified. With the archive compression, we have the COLUMN STORE COMPRESSED FOR ARCHIVE LOW and also COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR ARCHIVE HIGH.

With the Hybrid Columnar Compression warehouse and archive, the array inserts are compressed immediately. But, however, some conditions have to be met. It has to be a locally-- to use these, it has to be a locally managed tablespace, the automatic segment space management. And compatibility level, at least 12 too or higher when these values have been introduced. There are different compressors that are used for the compression hidden from the customer. It just depends on what is selected as to what is going to be the compression that's going to be used for-- notice that with the COLUMN STORE FOR QUERY HIGH and for ARCHIVE LOW, the zlib compression method is us