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What happens with I/O requests over NFS and more specifically with Oracle? How does NFS affect performance and what things can be done to...

What is right deep verses left deep? Good question. In join trees (not VST) the object on the left is acted upon first then the object on...

How long does it take to create a clone of an Oracle RAC database? How complicated is it? How much experience does it take? How about no...

About year ago or more, Oracle came out with a way to create thin clone copies of a database in EM 12c called “Snap Clone”. Not sure this...

Performance testing requires full, fresh data Many organizations don’t even attempt to test performance until very late in their...

Followup: The tweets from the datachat are available at http://www.confio.com/logicalread/oracle-db-performance-80-percent-hardware-dc01/...

Maximum manageable storage per VM by ESX version 4.1: 32TB (vmdk) / 120TB (RDM) 5.0: 60TB (vmdk) / 3.75PB (RDM) 5.1: 60TB (vmdk) / 3.75PB...

Introduction Unfortunately, what Oracle calls “Network Waits” most often have little to do with Network but and almost exclusively to do...

Oracle 10 and 11 Buffer Busy Waits usually happen on Oracle 10 and 11 mainly because of insert contention into tables or Indexes.  There...

if someone fraudulently uses your information for medical services or drugs, you could be held liable for the costs The demand for...

Delphix Modernization Engine is built on version 4 of our Agile Data Platform. Delphix built the Modernization Engine to help companies...

This is super cool, fine grain powerful performance analytics in Delphix 4.0 just released! To understand what the analytics shows, it is...

The new Oracle Scene magazine is out. Checkout pages 48-50 for an article by  me. Here are the awesome contents of Oracle Scene magazine...

Linux is taking over the workloads from the shrinking market share of IBM AIX pSeries Solaris Sparc Servers HP-UX Itanium because Linux...

The first production version of Delphix, released in 2010, was version 2. Version 2 virtualized Oracle databases. What does virtualizing...

Orignal PDF for this content available here. A new video webcast, features Gartner research VP, Jim Duggan,  and Delphix CEO, Jed Yueh,...

photo by Jesus Solana DBAs were cutting edge once upon  a time.  DBAs protected the company jewels and made sure the company’s data was...

After  Tanel Poder pointed out to me that someone had blogged my article verbatim, which I don’t really care about, but they had copied...

Bobby Durrett just put together a great little post on “outer joins : where do I put the (+)“. I also have hard time remembering, and...

Application developers frequently experiment to achieve higher quality builds, they try things out, make mistakes and find fixes....