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“Any improvement not made at the constraint is an illusion.” – Gene Kim paraphrasing “The Theory of Constraints” What is the constraint...

There have been a number of questions coming my way about Delphix versus snapshot technologies. The capabilities of Delphix can be...

“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” – Albert Einstein Along the same lines “It is impossible to even think without a mental...

Was emailing with my esteemed college John Beresniewicz at Oracle in the OEM group. John and I worked together on OEM 10g and thank...

What is one of the most daunting issues in IT departments now?  What kind of database issue can end people up in orange jump suits and...

Had a machine running the default database from the Oracle 11.2.0.3 installer. This instance was called o1123. I then created a second...

To drive revenue and growth, companies are constantly improving existing applications or creating new ones. This ongoing application...

How long does your financial close take? How long would you like it to take? How much access do your internal business analysts have to...

OEM just seems to have too many brittle esoteric configuration files and process dependencies. Ideally I just want to connect with...

How does the STA work in 11gR2 with the query from “Oracle’s SQL Tuning Pack – part II″ ? In Part II, the STA in 10g proposed a new...

Above is the AAS load produced by three runs of the same batch. There are 3 distinct humps labled ORIGINAL, STA TUNED and DBO TUNED . The...

Have you used Oracle’s SQL Tuning Pack? What were your experiences like? At my last consulting gig 2 out 3 statements I “tuned” with the...

I hear this from time to time: “Can’t I create a database copy in seconds with a file system snapshot?” First let’s take a step back....

Allocate on Write Thin Cloning Three challenges specifically stand out when considering Copy on Write filesystem snapshots described in...

Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) With EMC, thin cloning can only be achieved by using backup technology; in essence, the process has to...

Copy on Write Copy on write is a storage or filesystem mechanism that allows storage or filesystems to create snapshots at specific...

A production database is full of data that makes sense for its purpose, whether the database is 10GB or 10TB. Now if you take that...

I. “The Database is hanging!” AKA “the application has problems, good grief” I wonder if you can imagine, or have had the experience of...

How long does it take you to make a copy of production, find the sensitive data, mask that data and then make multiple copies for...

One thing I’ve failed to clearly document is that my tool ASHMON not only graphs ASH data but graphs v$sysstat as well. To access...