Effects of Sdo_Geometry Ordinate Precision on Performance

In a previous article I showed how too many digits of precision for the ordinates of an sdo_geometry object – stored in its sdo_ordinate_array – has an effect on storage volume. In this article I will revisit the question of storage size while examining the effect that storage size has on performance (search and retrieval).Read More

The Spatial filtering of geometries: The effect of tolerances on relationships

The knowledgeable Bryan Hall made a post over on the Oracle Technology Network’s Oracle Spatial Forum reminding users of the “hidden” issues that inform the way Oracle compare’s two geometries when using a secondary filter Here is the relevant section of the post. With relationship operators such as sdo_anyinteract that take two parameters for theRead More

Selecting all SDO_GTYPE values for all tables/sdo_geometry columns in a schema

A question was asked on the Oracle Technology Network Spatial forum: I am trying to select sdo_gtype from all tables in schema, i mean to execute same sql statement given below for entire schema. Any help on the usage of dynamic sql in PLSQL to execute select statement for all tables in the schema. HereRead More