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My goodness, nearly a week without a blog posting and my review of Jonathan’s book still hasn’t appeared. It’s been a crazy week at work and what little spare time I’ve had has been spent on getting my server installed. It looks like I won’t be able to get wireless access working but otherwise it’s… Continue reading Hotsos Symposium 2006

Here’s a review of Jonathan Lewis’ new book that I’ve just posted on amazon.co.uk Here is your review the way it will appear: An Exceptional BookReviewer: Doug Burns from EDINBURGH, Lothians United Kingdom It’s my favourite Oracle book of the many I’ve read (apologies to Tom Kyte) and I’m not expecting it to be surpassed… Continue reading Book Review: Cost-Based Oracle – Fundamentals

Code instrumentation is a subject that’s discussed constantly in Oracle-land, probably because Oracle’s server is instrumented pretty well. Once you’ve debugged or tuned an application with embedded instrumentation code you can never go back to just guessing – it’s too frustrating. Every now and again it occurs to me that there are some aspects of… Continue reading Speccy Instrumentation

I’ve had quite a few problems recently – lack of internet access for a while; difficulty in formatting some postings; my RSS feed broke yesterday and I had to be in work at 4am today for some production changes. On the formatting, I’ve decided to change the template to make the main content wider which… Continue reading The State of this Blog

In a previous blog I mentioned that Julian Dyke had talked about these views during his presentation and I noticed Jonathan Lewis also includes it in an Appendix of his new book that I started reading last night. There are three versions of the view Connected to:Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 – 64bit… Continue reading 10g Optimiser Environment Views

They’re not all on there yet, but some more reading matter for those of you who couldn’t make it to the conference. http://www.oaktable.net/userFiles.jsp Cheers

More problems with my RSS feed today – those damn Microsoft apps! Hopefully everything’s sorted now and I’ll need to stop using Word or maybe user Blogger for Word …

My copy of Jonathan Lewis’ CBO book should be with me tomorrow 😉 In the meantime, as I expect to be blogging pretty often about the process of setting up the Intel ISP4400 that I bought to use for experiments at home, I thought I’d better hive it off into a seperate blog. I worry… Continue reading Cost-based Oracle and ISP4400

You wait a while for one to come along and then get two at the same time. While looking at Technorati links from Andy C’s blog, I noticed another one I’ll be revisiting. http://www.lifeaftercoffee.com/ might not be as funny as Andy’s but the subject matter is right up my street – mainly DBA-related – and… Continue reading Good blogs are like buses

One of my old Sun colleagues, Jari Kuhanen, mentioned to me that he hoped to see more tips from the UKOUG conference appearing on blogs. Sadly, the few notes I made might as well be in Greek for all the sense they make to me when I read them, but hopefully I’ve got this one… Continue reading A better INDEX hint