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Dec 8, 2009
1 min

Taming the Performance Beast

Presented with Forrester’s Noel Yuhanna. Noel presented on the trends that are effecting performance, why it is critical to maintain...

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Dec 3, 2009
1 min

DB Optimizer 2.0 in the News!

Wow, I’m amazed and thrilled at all the press that DB Optimizer 2.0 is getting in the press. Check this out: SD Times Infoworld Codebeach...

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Nov 30, 2009
1 min

Advances in SQL Tuning Techniques at HOTSOS

http://www.hotsos.com/sym10/sym_speakers_hailey.html Advances in SQL Tuning Techniques In the past few years some novel SQL tuning...

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Nov 20, 2009
1 min

Graphics vs Text : Picture superiority effect

According to the picture superiority effect, concepts are much more likely to be remembered experientially if they are presented as...

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Nov 18, 2009
1 min

Oracle’s Cardinality Hint, Profiles, Outlines and SQL Baselines

This is more of a bookmark for a future blog post on using the Cardinality hint. This post by Greg Rahn give some example and I posted in...

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Nov 17, 2009
1 min

Explain Plan vs Real Plan on Oracle

A good part of my presentation Friday at NoCOUG was on explain plan command being an estimate of the actual execution plan. Now on the...

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Nov 16, 2009
1 min

Future of Cloud Computing and Relational Databases

I was talking to someone from Amazon who indicated that Amazon is moving more and more processing away from Oracle into the middle tier...

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Nov 14, 2009
1 min

Clean Installs (Embarcadero’s All Access)

Ever have problems de-installing software on windows? Well Embarcadero has a new technology where there is no install for it’s windows...

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Nov 14, 2009
2 min

Oracle Users Group – NoCOUG Fri 13th

Had an enjoyable day at the NoCOUG held at Oracle Corp, my old stomping grounds. It was fun to see and catch up with Greg Rahn, John...

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Nov 12, 2009
1 min

Oracle Books online

Did you know Google books has some amazing Oracle resources on line? I’m giving a presentation tomorrow at the Northern California Users...

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Nov 12, 2009
1 min

Oracle 11g Baselines

this site http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/2009/04/oracle-11g-sql-plan-management-sql-plan-baselines is the best source of information...

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Nov 12, 2009
1 min

Real Time SQL Monitoring

here is a feature that I’m excited about: Real Time SQL Monitoring http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/09/11gr2-monitoring-real-time-sql-plan-e...

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Nov 9, 2009
1 min

Taking the black art out of SQL tuning

Nice article on DB Optimizer: Taking the black art out of SQL tuning by Martin Heller Embarcadero DB Optimizer 2 takes a methodical...

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Oct 22, 2009
1 min

Oracle DBA Views !

Ever wonder why some of those DBA_ views take so long to execute? here is the view expansion of a query from SYS.DBA_ALL_TABLES joined...

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Oct 22, 2009
2 min

Designers Need Creativity, Understanding, Solutions

Two interesting links 1. Overtime working at Flickr during startup days probably was ineffectual: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-k...

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Oct 22, 2009
1 min

ashmasters.com

for all questions on the site ashmasters.com, please asked them in the comment section on this blog post. Due to the enormously high...

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Oct 21, 2009
3 min

DB Optimizer

DB Optimizer makes powerful use of graphics to communicate data faster , clearer and with less effort by the user than text...

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Oct 20, 2009
1 min

Visual SQL Tuning (VST)

Visual SQL Tuning (VST) is a ground breaking technology that we are aggressively developing and improving every verison. In this first...

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Oct 20, 2009
1 min

GUI forums and discussions?

Where are there good discussions on GUI and Information Visualization on the web? Decent discussion group on web site of Stephen Few:...

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Oct 18, 2009
1 min

Visual Design Ideas

Some quick rules of thumb for visual design http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/learning-from-the-design-around-you-ik...

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