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Disclosure: I’m attending Openworld at the invitation of the OTN ACE Director program who are paying for my flights, hotel and conference fee. My employer has helpfully let me attend on work time, as well as sending other team mates because they recognise the educational value of attending. Despite that, all of the opinions expressed… Continue reading OOW 2014: Day 2

Disclosure: I’m attending Openworld at the invitation of the OTN ACE Director program who are paying for my flights, hotel and conference fee. My employer has helpfully let me attend on work time, as well as sending other team mates because they recognise the educational value of attending. Despite that, all of the opinions expressed… Continue reading OOW 2014: Day 1

Disclosure: I’m attending Openworld at the invitation of the OTN ACE Director program who are paying for my flights, hotel and conference fee. My employer has helpfully let me attend on work time, as well as sending other team mates because they recognise the educational value of attending. Despite that, all of the opinions expressed… Continue reading OOW 2014: ACE Director Briefing

Disclosure: I’m attending Openworld at the invitation of the OTN ACE Director program who are paying for my flights, hotel and conference fee. My employer has helpfully let me attend on work time, as well as sending other team mates because they recognise the educational value of attending. Despite that, all of the opinions expressed… Continue reading OOW 2014: Beginnings

Now, *this* is a post I should have written ages ago but somehow (as in most cases these days) Twitter overtook blogging because it is so much easier to write a bunch of tweets on a mobile device of some kind when living normal life than to sit down and write a blog post. By… Continue reading Singapore

I received an email that the online Schedule Builder is live. I might regret saying this but, based on an initial glance, it’s an improvement on previous efforts. (Which wouldn’t be difficult!) For anyone who is interested in seeing some of the cool OEM12c Performance Page stuff, my session is :- Session ID: CON5389Session Title:… Continue reading Openworld Schedule Builder is live

No, no, no … not *that* JB! As regular readers will know, the JB who tends to get mentioned most often around these parts is John Beresniewicz who, up until recently, worked at Oracle on all the cool OEM Performance Pages and related instrumentation (alongside others, of course, such as Graham Wood, Uri Shaft, Kyle… Continue reading Get Up Offa That Thing

(Reminder, just in case we still need it, that the use of features in this post require Diagnostics Pack license.) Damn me for taking so long to write blog posts these days. By the time I get around to them, certain very knowledgeable people have commented on part 1 and given the game away! 😉I… Continue reading Recurring Conversations: AWR Intervals (Part 2)

I’ve seen plenty of blog posts and discussions over the years about the need to increase the default AWR retention period beyond the default value of 8 days. Experienced Oracle folk understand how useful it is to have a longer history of performance metrics to cover an entire workload period so that we can, for… Continue reading Recurring Conversations: AWR Intervals (Part 1)

Wow, it’s that time of year again already and the largest free independent Oracle conference is approaching. Yep, it costs absolutely nothing to attend OUG Scotland and you don’t need to be a member of UKOUG. Just bring your brain along with you and enjoy what looks like a stonkingly good agenda, filled with some… Continue reading OUG Scotland