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what is the current Berkeley DB Java Edition release? is there a public source code repository

AndyGlickDec 7 2020

The standard Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition pages give the current release as 7.5.11. And offers what looks to be a complete distribution. This is some years old.
Maven Central offers a release of com.sleepycat:je:18.3.12 which offers a more recent jar file, a source jarfile and a javadoc jar file, but it does not offer the test code or the examples.
Given that this product is released under an open source license it would be helpful if a source code repository were available. In addition, as I understand it the Affero GPL requires that OSS licensees are obligated to contribute their enhancements and bug fixes back to Oracle, but there seems to be no way of doing that, or rather there does not appear to be anyway that OSS participants can share changes among each other.
If the current release is in fact 18.3.12 then would you please create such a full release? If you aren't going to treat it as a release, then what are your intentions going forward for this product and how can OSS licensees see each other's work?

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MartinBach-Oracle Jan 8 2025

Hi Salomon,

please have a look at this blog post written by @ulrike-schwinn-oracle :

https://blogs.oracle.com/coretec/post/easy-sql-statement-tracking-in23c

I hope this answers your question, if not, please shout!

- Martin

Solomon Yakobson Jan 8 2025

@martinbach-oracle - No, it doesn't answer my question. Article you pointed to shows uses:

SQL> alter system set sql_history_enabled=true scope=both;

And in my post I said “Works fine when enabled on system level”. My question was about

SQL> ALTER SESSION SET SQL_HISTORY_ENABLED = TRUE;

where I showed SQL history was NOT captured even though it should be based on SQL_HISTORY_ENABLED:

Modifiable **ALTER SESSION**, ALTER SYSTEM

SY.

MartinBach-Oracle Jan 8 2025

As per the article I shared the situation is as follows at the moment

  • You must enable SQL history PDB-wide (only a DBA can do that) so there's a certain level of control over the feature
  • Your session has access to the SQL history
  • If you don't want to record anything, set sql_history_enabled to false.

I'm currently assessing if that's intended behaviour (in which case the documentation should be amended) or a feature not working as it should (in which case it needs fixing). The parameter is indeed session-modifyable, but not in the sense you expected.

We'll keep you posted.

- Martin

Solomon Yakobson Jan 8 2025

Do you mean it must be enabled on system level and not on session level and all session can do is disabe it for the session?

SY.

MartinBach-Oracle Jan 14 2025

Yes,

that's correct as of Oracle Database Free 23.6.

- Martin

Solomon Yakobson Jan 14 2025

Thanks Martin, I hope this will be added to 23AI docs soon.

SY.

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