Success is about Imagination

I wanted to plot a set of data by 3 dimensions. I wanted to plot I/O read latency by MB/s throughput by number of concurrent readers....

Anyone want to look through the following JSON and spot the problem? {{“o_w_ms”:[[1313412960000 , 1.71 ],[1313413020000 , 2 ]],...

Structure of a dtrace script #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s probe_which_is_something_to_trace / filter_optional / { actions } ...

photo by Latemodel Restoration Supply Oracle 10 added the awesome procedure dbms_xplan.display_cursor but unfortunately the documentation...

NFS versus dNFS Finally got to take Kevin Closson’s SLOB for spin. (BTW can one test dNFS with Orion at all?) Nice write up on SLOB by...

A customer called and wanted to know why the development database was so much slower than production when both databases were on the same...

lsnrctl start lsnrctl stop lsnrctl start alter system register No dice. Then I tried alter system set local_listener=’(ADDRESS =...

Had a great time last week presenting to the Ohio Oracle User Group (OOUG). I’m generally use to presenting a single presentation but for...

I’m super excited about two aspects of 12c (among many). First is Oracle 12c EM Express which gives light weight access to Oracle...

Thanks to a generous gift from Apress, every 10th arrival tomorrow to Oaktable World will win a copy of Pro Oracle Database 12c...

A few vignettes from this mornings Oaktable World. Kickoff from Mogens Nørgaard  on some of the origins of Oaktable Network. John...

A few vignettes from this mornings Oaktable World. Kickoff from Mogens Nørgaard  on some of the origins of Oaktable Network. Fabian...

Here are some talks of interest during Oracle Open World other than Oaktable World  where I’ll be all  Monday and Tuesday of course...

by Matt Hayward One of the less obvious advantages of database virtualization is a reduction in the read I/O issued against the...

by Matt Hayward I’m often surprised at how small the buffer caches allocated to Oracle databases are. When I started as a DBA at Amazon...

by Matt Hayward In collaboration with Kyle Hailey, Adam Leventhal, and others I’ve learned some rules of thumb for how to make accurate...

To get Delphix Express, the free version of Delphix, go to http://download.delphix.com and create an account, then log in. You should see...

EMlight might not be as important now with Oracle 12c coming out and with Oracle’s EM Express, but EMlight is still pretty cool.  I...

I’ve mentioned lab 128 before but I have to mentioned it again. Every DBA should know about this tool. It’s the fastest way to connect to...

Catch Confio at Oaktable World Sept 23,24 in San Francisco People have been asking me recently, “what is the best enterprise database...