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cool stuff: Guy Harrison explains how to set up flash caching on Linux for Oracle without Exatata http://guyharrison.squarespace.com/blog...

Check this out – SQL Plan visualization by Tanel Poder: http://tech.e2sn.com/apps/planviz

Better formatted at http://tinyurl.com/yfrjbwx Query 2 The VST diagram looks like There are two interesting things about this diagram....

article better formatted at http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/oracle-network-waits Introduction...

Tuning Example in 3 parts part 1 – “The Database is hanging!” AKA “the application has problems, good grief” I wonder if you can...

I can be exasperating when the database is slow or hanging and I can’t even connect to see what’s happening. In those cases, here is a...

from http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/oracle-io-waits Standard I/O select parameter1, parameter2, parameter3...

In an ongoing effort to document the main Oracle wait events, here is my current effort at documenting Oracle’s redo log related wait...

Get the full story at http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf 32 Million passwords were analyzed at...

(see http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/sash-1) I’ve gotten a few questions on SASH and SASHMON recently, so I...

BAARF – Battle Against any Raid Five http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html In the chart below, 1 represents good and 5 represents...

Vendors say that read cache will take care of IO Operations per sec, but if you have a sustained throughput it will only sustain for so...

(article best formated at link:http://tinyurl.com/ybyjazq) Waits on the cache buffer chains latch, ie the wait event “latch: cache...

Ideas and quotes form original article by Guy Harrison on Hadoop Sets its Sights on Enterprise Computing Google’s algorithms have been...

http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ I’m always interested in new, innovative and powerful ways to...

Article originally on (with better formating) http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/oracle-buffer-busy-wait...

Often when searching for information on Oracle via Google, the first links that show up are sites that lack any depth or rigor and I...

When a bottleneck happens how can you know whether It’s an application problem Machine is undersized SQL requires optimization Database...

Oracle wait events took years to become widely known for their power in performance tuning. With this article you’ll be able to beat the...

I like this guys attitude: Information architecture should be focused on making it easier to understand and navigate content — as quickly...