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http://www.oaktable.net/blog/oak-table-world-2017-oracle-open-world The Oak Table members will be discussing their latest technical...

While at Delphix, we did a lot of storage benchmarking. The I/O response times of Delphix depends, as one would logically imagine,...

photo by Thomas Hawk https://github.com/khailey/pgmon $ ./pgmon.sh Usage: pgmon.sh [username] [password] [host] <sid=postgres>...

pgload.jmx is JMX file you can load into Jmeter and run a substantial load on a Postgres database. Should work just as well on Oracle if...

Little did I know this building that captured my visual attention and imagination so many times walking to work over the last 6 months...

So Jmeter seems super cool. I’ve only used it a little bit but it does seem a bit touchy about somethings (like spaces in input fields)...

This blog post is just a start at documenting some of my experiences with jmeter. As far as load testing tools go, jmeter looks the most...

Dan Tow, in his book SQL Tuning, lays out a simple method of tuning SQL queries. The method is Draw a diagram of each table in the query...

Upgrading is always stressful – be it a computer, an Oracle database or an iPhone. There’s always a good chance for lost data and lost...

Every so often a DSS query that usually takes 10 minutes ends up taking over an hour.  (or one that takes an hour never seems to finish)...

Excited to see the announcement of Amazon RDS Performance Insight feature for database performance monitoring and tuning. Having met the...

I would think installing SQL*Plus on the Mac would be point, click download, point click, install bam it works. Nah It did install mostly...

(Disclamer: any opinions expressed here are fully my own and not representative of my employer) photo by alvaroprieto  (cc 2.0) Super...

Having take a new job at Amazon just two weeks ago and moving to Seattle (!)  I didn’t have the time nor was it practical to set up...

It’s frustrating to have to spend time jumping off into web security and wordpress configurations when there are so many other things...

This site had been running for a years with no big issues. I had performance and system saturation issues about 3 years ago and then...

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More news coming, but for now, we (family and I) are moving to Seattle! We will be giving up our gorgeous rental house in San Francisco...

Masking with Delphix (where duplicate blocks are shared making a new copy almost free storage wise and almost instantaneous) has 4 big...

Someone just asked on the Delphix Forums whether they could test Delphix replication with the free version of Delphix called Delphix...