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kyle Hailey

Nov 21, 20112 min read

Solaris IPS documentation

Oracle’s Image Packaging Service (IPS) is documented here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-32...

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kyle Hailey

Nov 17, 20115 min read

Procedural SQL*Plus and Password Encryption

One small but bothersome issue I’ve had for 20 years is how to drive a program like SQL*Plus with a shell script to make it...

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kyle Hailey

Nov 14, 20114 min read

Why does the same job run slower on an exact clone?

A customer was working with a clone copy of their production database for reports, but the cloned database reports were running slower...

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kyle Hailey

Nov 10, 20111 min read

Why OEM drives me crazy sometimes

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

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kyle Hailey

Nov 10, 20112 min read

EMlight

I’ve been meaning to blog about EMlight (http://obzora.com) for a while. I first tried it about 6 months ago, and was impressed. ...

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kyle Hailey

Nov 8, 20111 min read

Importing AWR repositories from cloned databases

I sometimes want to import AWR repositories from cloned databases to compare performance differences between the databases which should...

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kyle Hailey

Oct 31, 20112 min read

W-ASH : Web Enabled ASH

I’m excited about the ease of creating rich user applications that are web enabled given the state of technology now. JavaScript and...

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kyle Hailey

Oct 25, 20111 min read

NoCOUG’s 100th Conference Nov 9th!

Download the 100th issue of the NoCOUG Journal at http://bit.ly/rC2gRA. Can you believe it? 100 conferences! The Northern California...

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kyle Hailey

Oct 20, 20111 min read

Tuning Blog Entries

Organizing some of my past blog entries on Oracle database performance tuning and analysis. I’ll add more notes as well as a separate...

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kyle Hailey

Oct 14, 20111 min read

OEM 12c , cloud control

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

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kyle Hailey

Sep 28, 20111 min read

NoCOUG: Performance Training with Gaja Vaidyanatha Nov 15,16

There are only three days left (Sept 30) to get the early bird rate for the Oracle Performance Management Seminar by Gaja Krishna...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 28, 20113 min read

I/O Benchmarking tools

This blog post will be a place to park ideas and experiences with I/O benchmark tools and will be updated on an ongoing basis. Please...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 27, 20113 min read

Orion I/O calibration tool bug

All of my I/O testing and benchmarking has been geared toward Oracle, so the natural choice would for benchmarking I/O would be orion,...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 23, 20111 min read

Direct I/O for Solaris benchmarking

ZFS doesn’t have direct I/O. Solaris dd doesn’t have a iflag= direct. Thus for I/O benchmarking it requires mounting and umounting the...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 22, 20114 min read

Favorite Ted Talks (and other online lectures)

It’s not about technology. It’s about people and stories. – Dean Kamen A friend recently ask what are the best Ted Talks, and I thought...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 20, 20117 min read

Display_Cursor

Oracle 10 added the awesome procedure dbms_xplan.display_cursor but unfortunately the documentation of the package is a bit lacking and...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 19, 20111 min read

NFS max rsize on Solaris – gotcha

When mounting NFS file systems there is an option to set the max rsize requested. For example: mount -o rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,proto...

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kyle Hailey

Sep 14, 20111 min read

Delphix ROI

People are frequently asking me what I’m doing at Delphix after all the years I spent at Oracle, Quest and Embarcadero working on...

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kyle Hailey

Aug 30, 20113 min read

Highchart and JSON fun

Anyone want to look through the following JSON and spot the problem? {{“o_w_ms”:[[1313412960000 , 1.71 ],[1313413020000 , 2 ]],...

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kyle Hailey

Aug 25, 20112 min read

I want to be a simplifier – thanks Steve Jobs

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite...

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