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Here’s a slightly bizarre story. Towards the end of May last year, I noticed an incoming link to my parallel execution paper http://www.pythian.com/news/industryNews/ParallelExecution.html I visited the site and decided that ‘this Pythian bunch look pretty good’. At the time I was finding my work pretty unrewarding and looking back longingly on my days at Sun… Continue reading Now That’s What I Call An Interview!

Having finally finished work for the day, I have some bits and pieces before I get back to the Hotsos tests. Mike ScottI mentioned that Mike Scott has been been really helpful with preparing test environments and offering intelligent argument. Mike’s a Unix System Administrator and has some really interesting articles on his web site… Continue reading Bits and Pieces

It’s only a matter of time before someone brings it up, so I’d best get in there first. Some of you might be aware that tonight is Burns Night and, yet again, I’m a disgrace to my nation. A Polish colleague had to remind me today, even though someone mentioned it in an email to… Continue reading Burns Night

Some conversations are a recurring experience of DBA life. DBA [to software vendor] – ‘So why does the application schema owner need to have the DBA role privilege?’ Vendor – ‘The installation procedure requires it’ DBA – ‘So can we revoke it after the installation?’ Vendor – ‘It hasn’t been tested so we couldn’t support… Continue reading Application Security

Peter Robson, one of the directors of the UKOUG asked if I’d post the following … “You will remember the CD that was made of some of the presentations atOUG last autumn. Could you ask, via your blog, if anyone brought a copy of this CD, andif they would be prepared to contact me with… Continue reading UKOUG 2005 Presentations CD

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!

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)

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

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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