The niche for RAC
Recently, I received the following question from a respected colleague about Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) software… I found out from Oracle reps that we have a license for RAC but are not...
View ArticleKellyn Pot’vin in Oracle Magazine: “Peer To Peer: Green Is Good”
A new way to think about things… I’ve always felt that organizations are too quick to KIWI (“Kill It With Iron“) to fix system performance issues, rather than understanding the cause of the performance...
View ArticleRemembering Gary Dodge…
The world lost a remarkable person this week, my friend and mentor Gary Dodge. He is survived by his wife Luann, to whom he was married 33 years, by his daughter Brigid and by his son Ryan, and by a...
View ArticleWhat makes a DBA?
I wrote this article as a foreword for the 2007 Apress book “RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach” by Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda (ISBN 1590598512), and I’m...
View ArticleKScope13 conference in New Orleans
Building Applications That Play Nice In Oracle Database Scaling To Infinity: Making Star Transformations Sing Please come join us in the Big Easy — also, check out the no-extra-cost Hands-On Labs...
View ArticleGathering statistics in 10.2.0.5+ and 11.2.0.2+ encounters strange waits
It appears that, somewhere in the 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.2 patchsets, Oracle introduced some additional unwanted functionality to the procedures “GATHER_*_STATS” procedures in the DBMS_STATS package. I...
View ArticleView V$SQL_OPTIMIZER_ENV
This was fun, and I’ve been trying to remember to post about the things that are fun. I was working with a customer using a purchased application from a relatively over-bearing vendor. You know the...
View ArticleOOW13 and OTW13
Abstract selection for Oracle Open World 2013 (OOW13) completed recently, and one of the eleven abstracts that I had submitted has been accepted, entitled “Scaling To Infinity: Making Star...
View ArticleKeyword DETERMINISTIC is anything but…
According TheFreeDictionary.com, the word “deterministic” means… deterministic de·termin·istic adj. an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes In the Oracle PL/SQL Language...
View Article15 years of EvDBT
I worked at Oracle Consulting for eight and a half years, from January 1990 until July 1998, starting as a senior consultant and finishing as a technical manager. In the summer of 1998, I was...
View ArticleThe DBA is dead. Again.
Mark Twain never said, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.“ Instead, his comment in 1897 was less tongue-in-cheek than matter-of-fact. Confronted with news reports that he was gravely ill...
View ArticleHello Delphix!
After almost 16 years as an independent consultant, with a couple side-steps into the world of small consulting-services startups, I’ve accepted an offer from Delphix, a startup building the future of...
View Article#CloneAttack at Oracle OpenWorld 2014
Delphix and Dbvisit will be at the OTN Lounge in the lobby of Moscone South from 3:30 – 5:00pm on Monday 29-Sept. Come join us to hear about #CloneAttack and #RepAttack, two great hands-on learning...
View Article#OakTable World at Oracle OpenWorld 2014
Where: Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 4th St, San Francisco When: Mon-Tue, 29-30 September, 08:30 – 17:00 PDT For the third year in a row at the same fantastic location right in the heart of the...
View ArticleLovin’ la vida Oracle
As we prepare for the week of Oracle OpenWorld 2014, I look back on the 25 years I have spent within the orbit of Oracle Corporation. I joined Oracle Consulting Services (OCS) as an employee on...
View ArticleData Virtualization and Greener Data Centers
On the Saturday before the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference started, I had the added bonus of finding out that the Data Center Journal had published my article on how data virtualization leads to...
View ArticleWill the real data virtualization please stand up?
There is a post from a good friend at Oracle entitled “Will the REAL SnapClone functionality please stand up?” and, as well-written and technically rich as the post is, I am particularly moved to...
View ArticleOne year at Delphix
It’s been over a year since I leapt into the void. OK, more than a little melodramatic. In many respects, I was leaping from the void by joining a promising and exciting startup company like Delphix....
View ArticleIf you want something done, ask a busy person…
This is a re-post I originally made on the ODTUG website on 17-Jan 2013 at the beginning of my two-year term on the board of directors... This past weekend, I attended my first face-to-face Board of...
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