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Knowing myself, I doubt it will end up quite like this, but I thought I’d throw together an approximation. (I must say, the schedule builder this year is a significant improvement on previous years. It doesn’t have a jet-lag adjustor, but you can’t have everything.) Sunday, Sep 21 10:00-11:30 Building an Oracle Real Application Clusters… Continue reading My Openworld Schedule

When I was teaching the 10g Performance class at my last customer site, I remarked that the total number of seconds you see in the “Top 5 Timed Events” section of a Statspack or AWR report will often be greater than the total number of seconds between the snapshot intervals. For example, this is the… Continue reading Time Matters – An Infinite Capacity for Waiting*

[Disclaimer – this is a review of a free copy I received from Oracle Press in the UK] Well, it turned out that I had requested the ASM book (or “Oracle Automatic Storage Management: Under-the-Hood & Practical Deployment Guide“, to give it it’s full title) as one to review. It turned up a couple of… Continue reading Book Review – Oracle ASM

As previewed by Kurt on his blog, I’ll be giving the 10g Performance seminar for Oracle Belgium on the 16th and 17th October (Oh, and thanks for the kind words, Kurt). The reason I didn’t mention it before now was because I needed to update the agenda to reflect the course a little better. The… Continue reading Advert – More Seminar Dates

I’ve been working with Audit Vault 10.2.3 on AIX recently and ran into a problem that someone else might one day. I decided to capture the output as best I can and blog about it later. (As I don’t have the same system available any more, the formatting might leave a bit to be desired… Continue reading Hanging Audit Vault Warehouse Refresh Job

[Absolutely nothing to do with Oracle, but maybe a lot to do with why we do what we do ….] Well, maybe what 2 weeks away from the interweb gives you is a little perspective. Whilst catching up on blog postings, I noticed this one from Peter K. (Oh, and let me plug Peter’s blog… Continue reading Randy Pausch Last Lecture

Well, I’m back from two weeks holiday away from the net and a pile of blog comments and emails to catch up on. I’ll leave those for tomorrow. A quickie for now, though. I see that Kurt van Meerbeeck (yeah, OK, Kurt the DUDE guy) has finally started a blog. Truth be told, I don’t… Continue reading dude – it’s a blog

[The following is a guest blog post courtesy of Peter Robson, prompted by this event that we both attended. Peter’s a good friend, I love his writing style and he’s expressed similar opinions in the past to me, so I asked if he would write them down for a wider audience. See what you think.… Continue reading Server Technology Conundrums

Last Thursday’s Northern Server Technology Day organised by the UKOUG was one of the more enjoyable events I’ve attended. It helped that there were no hotels, driving or airports involved, just a simple walk to the train station, a 90 minute train journey (free wireless on hand) and a 10 minute walk at the other… Continue reading Northern Server Technology Day