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Had a great time last week presenting to the Ohio Oracle User Group (OOUG). I’m generally use to presenting a single presentation but for...

I’m super excited about two aspects of 12c (among many). First is Oracle 12c EM Express which gives light weight access to Oracle...

Thanks to a generous gift from Apress, every 10th arrival tomorrow to Oaktable World will win a copy of Pro Oracle Database 12c...

A few vignettes from this mornings Oaktable World. Kickoff from Mogens Nørgaard  on some of the origins of Oaktable Network. John...

A few vignettes from this mornings Oaktable World. Kickoff from Mogens Nørgaard  on some of the origins of Oaktable Network. Fabian...

Here are some talks of interest during Oracle Open World other than Oaktable World  where I’ll be all  Monday and Tuesday of course...

by Matt Hayward One of the less obvious advantages of database virtualization is a reduction in the read I/O issued against the...

by Matt Hayward I’m often surprised at how small the buffer caches allocated to Oracle databases are. When I started as a DBA at Amazon...

by Matt Hayward In collaboration with Kyle Hailey, Adam Leventhal, and others I’ve learned some rules of thumb for how to make accurate...

To get Delphix Express, the free version of Delphix, go to http://download.delphix.com and create an account, then log in. You should see...

EMlight might not be as important now with Oracle 12c coming out and with Oracle’s EM Express, but EMlight is still pretty cool.  I...

I’ve mentioned lab 128 before but I have to mentioned it again. Every DBA should know about this tool. It’s the fastest way to connect to...

Catch Confio at Oaktable World Sept 23,24 in San Francisco People have been asking me recently, “what is the best enterprise database...

See: Pythians Blog on Method-R tools Method R Tools MR Trace ($49.95) – automatically creates, collects and manages trace files for...

For everything you ever wanted to know about Block Change Tracking (BCT) and were afraid to ask, check out the awesome presentation from...

Video of webinar given on Data Control by myself and James Murtagh of Red Gate The most vital resource for applications can also be one...

Once in while I work on systems that are new to me and no one is around to explain the configuration to me. I can see databases running...

Database is getting high waits on buffer busy waits. Here is an example period where 5 sessions are completely blocked on buffer busy...

Oracle OEM 12c introduces a new feature that enables the creation of Oracle database thin clones by leveraging file system snapshot...

Here are  the tuning metrics tables (SQL  stats are not in “metric” tables per say) (*DBA_HIST_…_HISTORY views are sort of confusing....