RMOUG 2012 Revisited
As many of you know, I’ve been a bit busy since RMOUG Training Days finding a number of presentation opportunities
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RMOUG 2012 Presentation Slides!
Graham Wood was kind enough to send me a quick email and let me know that my presentation slides weren’t
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Enterprise Manager and Notifications
I ran out of time before I was able to provide an adequate white paper this year for my EM12c
Read MoreRMOUG 2012!
As busy as I am with the 11g project, (no real weekends off for 9 weekends and counting… :P) I
Read MoreSolid Choices for Oracle Tuning on Solid State Disk
As I continue to work on very large databases, (VLDB), I am exposed to more opportunities to speed up IO.
Read MoreOracle Open World 2011, Prep Time!
I’ve spent the week updating, packing and communicating in preparation for my trip to Oracle Open World 2011. As with most
Read MoreTempfile Read /Writes and ASM
I truly believe that database myths are the scourge of the database world. With that said, I have to blame
Read MoreA Tale of Session Parameter Settings
This is another blog post about how TEMP can kill you in performance. The Program Global Area, aka PGA, is
Read MoreWarp Speed with Temp Tablespace Groups
The introduction of the temp tablespace was a crucial step in the RDBMS to separating the “work area” for sorting
Read MoreAddressing a Deadlock
I’ve always had a *thing* for trace files. They serve me well- I like them and they seem to really
Read MoreFast Parallel Rollback and Large Transactions
The SMON spit out this error after the cycle of the db on the rollback of the huge insert into the
Read MoreOracle Open World Official Blogger Pass Acceptance
Like Chet, from OracleNerd, I received my official Blogger Approval for Oracle Open World yesterday! This will be my first
Read MoreRound Robin and Parallel Forced to Serial
So we have a parallel process, coordinator 739 running, just not very well… I have an ugly pink section in
Read MoreRMOUG Board of Directors
I started to write this blog post almost two months ago and finally updated it to post to the site.
Read MoreBlogger Registration Complete for OOW 2011
Thanks to Chet Justice of OracleNerd, I’m now registered for Oracle Open World 2011 with the Blogger’s registration. I will
Read MoreOracle Streams and Performance Considerations
Although Streams is a goner, (Golden Gate taketh over…) My notes on performance considerations when utilizing streams as I work
Read MoreReasons Behind Collecting SQL Baselines Before an 11G Upgrade
Jeff Smith, via Twitter, asked a very good question about my previous post regarding baseline plans when upgrading from 10g
Read MoreConsistent Performance for 10g Upgrades to 11g
When involved in an 11g upgrade of a 10g database, one of the important goals for a DBA is to
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