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A while back, I implored Anjo Kolk to start posting to his blog again. I suspect it’s completely unrelated, but he’s back 😉 Cool.

or … ‘what’s that all about?!?!’ Last year, I blogged about some of the variations on Optimal Flexible Architecture that I’ve seen on my travels. I’m gradually coming round to having the service group for clustered applications as the top directory level (e.g. /myapp1/oradata//myapp1/oraindex//myapp2/oradata//myapp2/oraindex/ but I’m still not convinced. If people ever failed over individual… Continue reading 10g Default Installation and OFA

At the moment I’m writing a short 9i/10g New Features seminar for the developers at work. The idea is to run through lots of new features very quickly to see if anything lights their candle and they can then go off and investigate further afterwards. It occurred to me while I was putting some slides… Continue reading Resumable Storage Allocation

THE FINAL UPDATE – 21st August 2006 Template Issues? I don’t think so! More like user error 😉 It turns out that all of my template/RSS/blog problems were self-inflicted because I’d stupidly renamed my templates/default folder to something else. What I hadn’t realised was that, a bit like the DEFAULT profile in an Oracle database,… Continue reading Template Issues

The AUSOUG and OAUG committees are very excited to announce the Australian 2006 conference series is less than three months away. While our American neighbours are focusing on Oracle OpenWorld in October, and our UKOUG friends on their (extended!) November conference, Australians will not miss out with the largest Oracle user group conference in Australia… Continue reading AUSOUG/OAUG 2006 Conference Announcement

Previously I talked about the importance of historical perspective to server performance tuning, but it applies to many areas of working with databases. For the last part of this mini-series, I thought I’d pull together a few more examples. Execution Plans and Optimiser Statistics I’ve written several blogs recently about the value of keeping a… Continue reading Historical Perspective (Part 3)

Apologies to anyone who is waiting for a reply to an email they’ve sent me, but I’ve been experiencing fairly severe problems with Yahoo mail over the past couple of days. The first signs were a couple of consecutive evenings when my mailbox was constantly busy so I couldn’t retrieve mail. Then no mail arrived… Continue reading Yahoo Mail Problems

I have plenty of blog ideas floating around, but the tatty layout on my website has been bugging me for ages so I’ve made a start on that. I still need to reformat the HTML versions of a number of papers, but I’m pretty happy with the way it looks just now. Using a proper… Continue reading New Website Layout

Your chance to submit an abstract if you’re interested in presenting at next year’s Hotsos Symposium.

The most likely time to find new material on Jonathan Lewis’ website is the weekend. I don’t have proof of this, but I’m sure a statistical study would prove me right. However, this automated feed business seems to work reasonably well and ensured that I noticed several cracking new articles today. Enjoy.