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“The application design is the most important factor in performance” In RSA, Stephane Faroult, lays out examples of Java code, user...

You’d think I ‘d find this on “Information is Beautiful” but got the link from a friend on Facebook. The images below visually display...

(open images in a new window to see full size) I’m really enjoying DB Optimizers simple drill down into SQL statements that hide...

I’m excited to be speaking about Visual SQL Tuning at Michigan OakTable Symposium. The symposium sounds awesome with many of my...

From: SoftwareAdvice.com In this graphic of the size, type and timeline of Oracle acquisitions: Follow-up: I played with the data a...

I think the VST diagrams are powerful on their own but my original goal was to show the execution path on top of the diagram in order to...

There are a lot of powerful features in DB Optimizer so I put together a quick 14 minute video to go over them: DB Optimizer XE product...

Embarcadero s conducting a brief survey to learn more about database professionals what challenges do they face this year and day to day...

The infamous 10053 trace is probably the most extensive trace for understanding why the Oracle optimizer chose a query’s execution path...

I’m excited about the upcoming minor release of DB Optimizer in a few weeks, 2.5.1. Version 2.5.1 will have graphics for outer joins,...

I’ll be speaking at the InSync10 event in Melbourne about Database Performance Made Easy at the InSync10 event in Melbourne, Australia 16...

New book recommendation: Refactoring SQL Applications by Stephan FaroultI found the book easy to read, well thought out and covers...

How does the STA work in 11gR2 with the query from “Oracle’s SQL Tuning Pack – part 2” ? Here is the view on the Top Activity Page: The...

Above its the load produced by the same load. Its a query being run by 10 users 20 times with a sleep of random interval between 1-2...

Have you used Oracle’s SQL Tuning Pack? What were your experiences like? At my last consulting gig 2 out 3 statements I “tuned” with the...

We had almost 2000 people sign up for the webinar on SQL tuning with Jonathan Lewis and I. After the webinar many people had questions on...

(Via Slashdot http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/14/2225251/Knuth-Got-It-Wrong) Full article at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

Thanks to everyone who joined for the webinar with Jonathan Lewis last Thursday. I’ve been getting a number of inquiries asking if the...

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

Just got DB Optimizer 2.5 out the door two weeks ago and now work is going fast on 2.5.1 slated for beginning of August. Already added...