RMOUG 2014 Abstracts- Last Week to Submit One, Two, Three…
This is the last week for RMOUG Abstract Submissions for Training Days 2014! Last day is Aug. 31st and we want your
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Making Technology Bulletproof
Where to begin with Oracle and SQL
Seeing more and more questions on “where do I start with Oracle if I want to be a DBA?” My
Read MoreTCP Trace Analysis for NFS
How do we know where latency comes from when there is a disparity in reported I/O latency on the I/O
Read MoreEM12c Enterprise Monitoring, Part I
Effective Monitoring This is going to be a five part series discussing how to set up EM12c effectively and productively
Read MoreOracle Open World 2013
I have a number of sessions going on the week of Oracle Open World and figured I better get some
Read MoreOracle time units in V$ views
Oracle has a crazy mix of units of time in various v$ views seconds centi-seconds milliseconds microseconds Some are straight
Read MoreLatency heatmaps in D3 and Highcharts
See Brendan Gregg’s blog on how important and cool heatmaps can be for showing latency information and how average latency hides what
Read MoreExadata Can’t Fix Your Temp Problem
Post a recent migration to consolidate a number of new databases to one of my client’s Exadatas, I found myself
Read MorePassive-Aggressive Dynamic Sampling CBO with 11.2.0.3.0
Didn’t know that was the name of a little know feature in 11g, eh? OK, so I may have named it
Read MorePost Redgate Webinar on Database 12c Pluggable Databases
Thanks to everyone that tuned in for Redgate’s All things Oracle Webinar I did on Database 12c today. I know
Read MoreRedgate Webinar July 17th “Plugging in: Oracle Database 12c Pluggable Databases”
I will be presenting another webinar with my good friends at Redgate this Wednesday, July 17th on the new Database
Read MoreOracle Pluggable Databases- Easy as Pie, DBCA Pie, That Is…
So for those of you that aren’t going to be “deep diving” soon, there will be two interfaces for creating
Read MoreAdobe FlashPlayer with Firefox When Setting up EM Express for DB12c
As we all know, it’s always the little things that come back to bite us when we are working with
Read MoreKSCOPE 2013 Review
I returned home last night after a week in the great city of New Orleans for ODTUG’s KSCOPE 2013. We
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I will be presenting this next week at KSCOPE 2013. I have a number of presentations, both technical and WIT,
Read MoreDatabase as a Service
The idea of providing databases as a service to customers and companies can be a very foreign idea to the
Read MoreFor My Sister, Kristi
As many know, I joke about being a strange, ADHD kid. I didn’t really fit in with the other kids
Read MoreRepeat Performance
How many performance specialists have experienced projects where reporting was horrid in the beginning, maybe didn’t even complete? The focus
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