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I remember I said I wouldn’t do this any more, but last October, someone from Oracle Press contacted me by email because they’d noticed the following words on my website. “However, those aspects are well dealt with in Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics and Tuning by multiple authors. I usually don’t… Continue reading Book Review – Oracle 11g New Features

Time to wrap things up (if you’ll excuse the festive pun). Not because there aren’t numerous other examples of the gap between accepted wisdom and reality that I could laugh or sigh at, but because I want to revisit some old topics in the next week or so and then take a break for a… Continue reading The Reality Gap (5) – Conclusion

I’ve left one of my favourite topics for the penultimate episode of this mini-series. The more sites you work at and the more performance problems you work on, the more you begin to learn the one essential truth of modern system architecture. It’s never the SAN. Here’s a true story. Rest assured that I’ve watched… Continue reading The Reality Gap (4) – It’s never the SAN

As a regular reader of Jonathan Lewis’ blog, I like the way he prefixes seminar announcements and the like with ‘Advert’. (I looked for an example to make sure it was ‘Advert’ and not ‘Advertisement’, but he deletes them after a few days!) That’s not to say he’s the only person who follows this practice,… Continue reading Adverts – Catch-up

I need to tread carefully, in case I get ticked off by Dave Edwards, but there’s some seriously good stuff floating around this week. The more the merrier, I say, particularly when they’re pushing up the standards. (Is that ok, Dave? Three links, and I didn’t add a single word of analysis!)

… does it take to remove an SD card? I was vaguely aware of this picture being taken but hoped Mark Bobac might forget it 😉 Thanks to all concerned for their assistance.

… I hope Since my earlier posts about plagiarism have achieved their purpose. which were 1) To have copied slides removed from someone else’s presentation.2) To alert various user groups.3) To illustrate to the individual concerned the error of his ways and make a public example of him to others. I have removed the two… Continue reading Plagiarism – Final Update

I was up pretty early on Wednesday to carry on working on my presentation. As I said to someone, once they saw how basic the content was, it would be difficult to see why it takes so long but a lot of it is tweaking with the flow and by going over it so many… Continue reading UKOUG Days Three and Four