First Week at Oracle
I was warned it would be difficult. I was warned that it would be time-consuming and painful, but I survived
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Making Technology Bulletproof
Oracle : buffer busy wait
Oracle 10 and 11 Buffer Busy Waits usually happen on Oracle 10 and 11 mainly because of insert contention
Read MoreHealth Care Crises in Application Development
if someone fraudulently uses your information for medical services or drugs, you could be held liable for the costs The
Read MoreASH Analytics- Activity Focused on Resource Consumption, Part II
This is the second post on ASH Analytics Detail. You can find the first post here. This post we’re going
Read MoreASH Analytics- Activity Focused on SQL Data, Part I
I have a request to hit on some EM performance blog posts, so we’re going to start with breaking down
Read MoreSupporting Your Virtual VMs, Post II, PC and VM/Image Settings
I’m in the midst of transferring over to my travel laptop to run all my VMs on and retiring my
Read MoreSupporting Your Virtualbox VMs, Post 1- External Storage
I love my Lenovo Yoga 11s special build, ultra book. It has 16G of memory, an Intel core i7 and
Read MoreIntroducing the EM12c Goth Cowgirl
Yes, you heard that right- DBA Goth Cowgirl is getting an upgrade to Enterprise Manager, (EM12c) Goth Cowgirl! I will
Read MoreThe New Chapter
Today is my last day at Enkitec and I look back on a whirlwind two years. As many people know,
Read MoreNew “DBA Kevlar Ammo” Flipboard
A number of folks have told me how much they enjoy the content that I “buffer” out throughout a 24
Read MoreEM12c Creating a New Agent Registration Password
I know, I know… Just answering questions that I keep receiving from folks repeatedly, so if you know this one,
Read MoreProper Resync of an Agent
When an agent reports that it’s blocked and needs to be resync’d, most DBAs are going to log into the
Read MoreRMOUG Training Days 2014 Followup
So I survived one more year as the conference director for RMOUG Training Days 2014! 🙂 There was some question
Read MoreTraining Days Welcome
Training Days 2014 for RMOUG starts in just TWO days. Tim and I have picked up Jonathan Lewis and Pete
Read MoreEM12c Adding Targets and Keeping it Clean
I often have folks ask me for assistance when target discovery isn’t successful. The following is from a client’s environment
Read MoreOpinion Post- Tech Education, Its a First World Problem
This post is to clearly discuss an opinion I have on where I think we’re failing our current and next
Read MoreCritical importance of data visualization
photo by David Blackwell. Not sure if you can imagine or have ever experienced a meeting where you bring in
Read MoreThe CTAS, a.k.a. Processing Data the Jetson’s Way
**Note- This is an article I wrote about 4 years ago that, as far as I know, can only be
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