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Well, well, well … there has certainly been a lot of chat about Eddie’s new OraQA site over the past couple of days, to a degree that I wanted to clarify some of my own thoughts after reading other blogs. In no order at all (other than the order they fall out of my head… Continue reading OraQA (part two)

Good SAN administrators that is. (Sorry, Mike – it’s a DBA joke) My current employer/customer is pulling out the stops to help me perform some tests for the upcoming Hotsos presentation. Remember, I’m a contractor, so they have no vested interest in my personal development. So, by way of giving them the credit they deserve… Continue reading They exist, I promise!

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Eddie Awad asked me to take a look at the new OraQA site that he’s set up. I was pretty tied up with other things last week and Eddie was mid-implementation over the weekend, so it’s taken me until today to get to it (and for goodness’ sake, Tom, give the rest of us a… Continue reading OraQA

It’s a bit of a blog frenzy today! On the 3rd November last year, immediately after the UKOUG conference, there was a seminar in Edinburgh to discuss temporal databases. (Mogens blogged about it here and I’d mentioned some of Rob Squire’s work here.) I had planned to go initially but was unable to get the… Continue reading Peter Robson on the Temporal Database seminar

Just in case you miss it … Jonathan has an interesting new piece on sort efficiency in 10gR2. What struck me on reading this is that, no matter how mature the CBO may be, small improvements are constant. That tells me that it’s a mistake to rely on an optimiser to do everything well and… Continue reading Jonathan Lewis on 10gR2 Sort efficiency

Prompted by Jeff Moss’ blog, I decided to use ORION to measure the performance of various I/O configurations I’m testing for the upcoming Hotsos presentation. I’ve already blogged about the Linux results on a couple of configurations but I’m still tempted to include a Windows Laptop test (although I haven’t decided yet). To that end,… Continue reading Windows ORION Numbers

This one is courtesy of Andrew Campbell at Sun Microsystems. He noticed in an Oracle Magazine article that you can use a URL as a script name in sqlplus. SQL> select * from v$version;BANNER—————————————————————-Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 – ProdPL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 – ProductionCORE 10.2.0.1.0 ProductionTNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 – ProductionNLSRTL… Continue reading Something Else I Didn’t Know

It’s all too believable. Sitting in my Inbox is this mail to myself on 19th Dec with a list of future Blog ideas Yahoo Mail Beta and MetalinkSage, Tatung Einstein and a nice website :-http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=607&st=1http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=647&st=1http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=86 I thought I might get round to these when the holidays were over (I was trying to be a good… Continue reading That Damn Kyte!

Well, it’s officially my birthday now. I’ve had more birthday wishes than I’m used to, then I came across this. (I’m mentioned some way in to an interesting blog) http://stephensorablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/almost-all-users-are-idiots.html I tend to have a terrible memory for course students (I met a lot in quick succession) but I remember Stephen and I’m chuffed that… Continue reading My lucky day