Oracle International Corporation

Yu Chieh Fu

Tirthankar Lahiri

Andrew Witkowski

Shasank Kisan Chavan

Teck Hua Lee

Sujatha Muthulingam

You Jung Kim

Vicente Hernandez Jimenez

Sooyeon Jo

Techniques are provided for optimizing storage of database records in segments using sub-segments. A base segment is a container used for storing records that belong to a database object. A database management system receives a request to load, into the database object, a first set of records that are in a first state. In response to receiving the request, the system generates a new sub-segment, which is a container that is separate from the base segment. The system stores the first set of records, in their first state, within the sub-segment. The system then monitors one or more characteristics of the database system. In response to the one or more characteristics satisfying criteria, the system performs a migration of one or more records of the first set of records from the sub-segment to the base segment. During the migration, the system converts the one or more records from the first state to a second state and stores the one or more records, in their second state, in the base segment.

Automatic, online and space efficient clustering and compression of very large database objects

Techniques are provided for optimizing storage of database data records in segments using sub-segments. A segment may be comprised of a plurality of extents that contain data blocks and a plurality of references to sub-segments. Sub-segments are containers that contain other extents. A request to insert a set of records into a segment may be received by a database management system. Upon receiving the request, a particular sub-segment is selected to temporarily store the set of records. The set of records are inserted into data blocks belonging to an extent of the sub-segment. Access frequency for the set of records is monitored to determine whether the access frequency is less than a first threshold. When the access frequency of a subset of records is less than a first threshold, the subset of records is compressed and inserted into a particular extent of a particular segment.

Self-optimizing database objects using virtual segments

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Yu Chieh Fu