My slides and white paper are all submitted for RMOUG 2011 and I’m starting to get a bit anxious about the event. Being the “hometown girl” to represent Pythian comes with some new pressures that I didn’t feel last year when total failure just meant I was making a fool out of myself… 🙂 The schedule is looking pretty good so far, but as it goes every year, there are a number of presentations that I would like to attend that are all scheduled the same time as my own, (OK, so I would have only been able to attend ONE of them, but I…
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I received an email from an obviously annoyed DBA this weekend. I’m sure many of you are not surprised, I can be rather annoying. The annoyance stemmed from a request I was working on to rebuild a number of bitmap indexes. The problem is, when I take on a problem, I have a tendency to demand to do things the right way, so a simple request to check bitmap indexes for fragmentation, always turns into a bit larger project with me at the helm. When it comes to indexes, it’s not just a simple rebuild. I want the index JUSTIFIED. …
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Just about any DBA you speak with will admit to having at least one other DBA they follow on the web, seek out when the present at conferences or search out when purchasing technical books. I jokingly refer to these as DBA crushes, (which really annoys my male coworkers when I tell them they are “DBA crushing” when the arena is also predominently male… :)) Now that I am part of the Exadata team at #Pythian, I’ve been intensely focused on every scrap of online information regarding the technology and from all this research, I have come up with a new DBA…