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Like Greg Rahn, I’ve looked at many SQL Monitoring reports over the past year or two. Possibly not as many as Greg, but it’s become my default method of communicating* SQL performance issues to colleagues to the point that some might be finding it irritating by now, whilst others are hooked from the start. (Personally,… Continue reading Real-Time SQL Monitoring – Statement Not Appearing

Having had one of my best conference experiences ever this year in the company of many good Norwegians, this weeks news saddened me and it must have come as a hell of a shock to the country as a whole, not just those involved. Their horror is difficult to imagine. I really don’t have adequate… Continue reading OT: Norway

Whilst investigating the latest of our many library cache contention problems on 11.2, I made the fatal mistake of relying on my previous experience combined with a standard Oracle Support note describing how to diagnose such problems. When the system was apparently hung (although the reality was that one session was holding a library cache… Continue reading Systemstate Dump warning

(No, not the blogging.) The fact that I’m writing this post from my new home in London, rather than a hotel room or an airport lounge, should mean that the move from Edinburgh to London is done. If only it was that simple. As with any move, new things to take care of keep popping… Continue reading It’s over, kind of

The annual OUG Scotland conference takes place next Wednesday (8th June) at a familiar location to me – the Sun Microsystems site in Linlithgow where I spent a happy 6 months on contract many years back. I’ve always looked forward to this event but sadly will be beavering away at a client site in London.… Continue reading OUG Scotland

Tuesday was a fun day this week as Graham Wood, Tom Kyte and Andrew Holdsworth visited London for the latest Real World Performance Day. This is an event that has already run several times in the US via the IOUG and consists of a three-person presentation style which I thought worked very well – much… Continue reading A Day of Real World Performance

I’ve spotted a few useful posts lately and a few friends have started blogging so I thought I’d draw people’s attention to them. Neil Chandler is a UKOUG regular as well as a central and well-loved member of the informal London Oracle drinking massive (well, that’s what I’ll say about him in public anyway 😉).… Continue reading New Blog Round-Up

Regular readers might recall the previous adventures of Roger Wilco, the somewhat superior raccoon. (There are several links there, best read in order.) Well last week I suspect we saw the final chapter in Roger’s round-the-world trip which has included Birmingham, Malov, San Francisco, Malov, Birmingham, Cirencester and many points in between.  Through the magnificent… Continue reading The Final Adventures of Roger Wilco?

It’s been a busy time over the past few weeks. I’ve given 3 different presentations at 3 conferences in as many weeks First was the UKOUG Back to Basics event, which was the least effort because it was in Oracle’s City Office, around the corner from the offices I’m working in at the moment. It… Continue reading A Busy Few Weeks

I’ve built up quite a blogging back-log that I hope to clear a little over the next week, but I saw something today that’s more important than any of the posts to come so I wanted to blog about that quickly first. John Scott, a pillar of the Oracle Apex community came up with a… Continue reading Highly Recommended