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UPDATE: thanks to Alex Gorbachev for pointing out that Oracle has a public yum for OEL which is compatible with REHEL and Oracle has...

Back in http://dboptimizer.com/2010/07/26/oracle-10053-sql-trace-viewer/ I mentioned an Oracle 10053 trace file viewer. Well now there is...

I sometimes forget which versions of ASH have which fields, so here is a bit of a graphic and textual cheat sheet. (see...

Structure of a dtrace script #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s something_to_trace / filters / { actions } Something_else_to_trace /...

At UKOUG someone asked me if DB Optimizer’s VST diagrams could deal with left deep verses right deep execution plans. What is right deep...

People have been asking me recently, “what is the best enterprise database monitoring software?” Of course for Oracle there is OEM but...

see: http://oracleprof.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-release-of-s-ash-v23.html “New features: – new easier installation process – new...

Oracle’s Image Packaging Service (IPS) is documented here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-32...

One  small but bothersome  issue I’ve had for 20 years is  how to drive a program like SQL*Plus with a shell script to make it...

A customer  was working with a clone copy of their production database for reports, but the cloned database reports were running slower...

OEM just seems to have too many brittle esoteric configuration files and process dependencies. Ideally I just want to connect with...

I’ve been meaning to blog about EMlight (http://obzora.com) for a while.  I first tried it about 6 months ago, and was impressed. ...

I sometimes want to import AWR repositories from cloned databases to compare performance differences between the databases which should...

I’m excited about the ease of creating rich user applications  that are web enabled  given the state of technology now. JavaScript and...

Download the 100th issue of the NoCOUG Journal at http://bit.ly/rC2gRA. Can you believe it? 100 conferences! The Northern California...

Organizing  some of my past blog entries on Oracle database performance tuning and analysis. I’ll add more notes as well as a separate...

Was emailing with my esteemed college John Beresniewicz at Oracle in the OEM group. John and I worked together on OEM 10g and thank...

There are only three days left (Sept 30)  to get the early bird rate for the Oracle Performance Management Seminar by Gaja Krishna...

This blog post will  be a place to park ideas and experiences with I/O benchmark tools and will be updated  on an ongoing basis. Please...

All of my I/O testing and benchmarking has been geared toward Oracle, so the natural choice would for benchmarking I/O would be orion,...