Performance – DBAKevlar

When we talk about optimization in Oracle, many DBAs immediately jump into metrics like CPU utilization, I/O throughput, or specific

HammerDB CLI for Oracle on Azure

Disclaimer: I’m not a big fan of benchmark data. I find it doesn’t provide us as much value in the

Load testing as part of a cloud migration project is expected and should be built into the requirements. The goal

So we went over locations and the basics of logging and tracing in Power BI. I now want to know

I can be an extremely impatient person about anything I think should be faster. I’m diving in deep with Power

January is winding down and RMOUG Training Days 2015 is just around the corner, taking up much of my after

Here are the tuning metrics tables (SQL stats are not in “metric” tables per say) (*DBA_HIST_…_HISTORY views are sort of

One thing that I have found sorely missing in the performance pages of Enterprise Manager is latency values for various

Anyone who has been around Oracle performance over the years knows the grief that hard parsing SQL queries can cause

Image from Bertrand Drouvot UPDATE: thanks to a discussion in the comments it’s come to my attention that there should

Seeing more and more questions on “where do I start with Oracle if I want to be a DBA?” My