Success is about Imagination

Gavin Soorma has a nice blog on exporting and importing AWR repositories http://gavinsoorma.com/2009/07/exporting-and-importing-awr-snaps...

UPDATE: the book sale was only a couple of days and is over now and back to the regular price last I checked ———————————————————- New...

Once in while I work on systems that are new to me and no one is around to explain the configuration to me. In these cases, I’ve often...

Update July 2013: Larry Wall: “Java is sort of the Cobol of the 21st century” , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8fQiskYII Another...

People ask me what the limit is to the number of tables  in a SQL statement  that DB Optimizer can handle when tuning.  Above is a tiny...

I’ve always wanted some sort of calendar view of load where I could see patterns across the same days of the week and same hours of the...

I’m starting this post as an ongoing discussion of research. Today I received a AWR export and wanted to get a feel for what the load is...

It’s fun to see how graphics are evolving. The title of this post is from one of my favorite blogs Information is Beautiful along with a...

Haven’t had time to check this link out but looks like some interesting tools: http://windows.podnova.com/trends/oracle_performance_trace...

Ringing in the new year with a new look on wordpress. WordPress offers me better aesthetic possibilities and customization options than...

Many of my endeavors have been accelerated tremendously by networks of friends and acquaintances I have. One group of acquaintances and...

Yahoo is shutting Altavista down Dan Rosensweig former COO at Yahoo responding to the question: Why did Google succeed in search over...

What web enabled graphing packages are the best and why? Here is a good list of free charts http://designtocoding.wordpress.com/2009/12/1...

I don’t know if you are ever asked to compare to AWR periods. AWR period comparison is pretty easy if you have access to the two periods...

Wow, thanks to Process Monitor   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 I was able track down why I couldn’t connect to...

I don’t consider myself a programmer and my exposure to some of these languages is quite superficial, so please feel encouraged to jump...

It’s amazing how time flies. I’ve got the above book sitting on my desk at work. It’s the only book on my desk at work. Its probably my...

You know it’s a good company when the support desk looks like this: Delphix, the company I’ve been at for the past month, is hiring! We...

Been spending time lately testing out and trying to tune NFS mounts. For testing IO, I’ve been using dd iozone bonnie++ orion This first...

Check this out ( from http://tech.e2sn.com/virtual-conferences ) The E2SN Virtual Conferences are webinar-style online training sessions,...