Success is about Imagination

It’s fun to see how graphics are evolving. The title of this post is from one of my favorite blogs Information is Beautiful along with a...

Haven’t had time to check this link out but looks like some interesting tools: http://windows.podnova.com/trends/oracle_performance_trace...

Ringing in the new year with a new look on wordpress. WordPress offers me better aesthetic possibilities and customization options than...

Many of my endeavors have been accelerated tremendously by networks of friends and acquaintances I have. One group of acquaintances and...

Yahoo is shutting Altavista down Dan Rosensweig former COO at Yahoo responding to the question: Why did Google succeed in search over...

What web enabled graphing packages are the best and why? Here is a good list of free charts http://designtocoding.wordpress.com/2009/12/1...

I don’t know if you are ever asked to compare to AWR periods. AWR period comparison is pretty easy if you have access to the two periods...

Wow, thanks to Process Monitor   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 I was able track down why I couldn’t connect to...

I don’t consider myself a programmer and my exposure to some of these languages is quite superficial, so please feel encouraged to jump...

It’s amazing how time flies. I’ve got the above book sitting on my desk at work. It’s the only book on my desk at work. Its probably my...

You know it’s a good company when the support desk looks like this: Delphix, the company I’ve been at for the past month, is hiring! We...

Been spending time lately testing out and trying to tune NFS mounts. For testing IO, I’ve been using dd iozone bonnie++ orion This first...

Check this out ( from http://tech.e2sn.com/virtual-conferences ) The E2SN Virtual Conferences are webinar-style online training sessions,...

Anyone try to use OEM from a windows 64bit machine? Looks like there is no SVG install for windows 64bit so the charts on the performance...

It’s been years since I’ve changed any ASHMON code though I have used ASHMON whenever I didn’t have access to DB Optimizer or when I...

Tomorrow I’m on an Embarcadero hosted webinar about the pros and cons of hosting Oracle on VMware. If interested the link is at...

OCW bigger and better this year. That meant more beer, more technical goodness and chicken wings Presentations from Oracle Closed World...

Oracle OEM is slower, more complicated and it if it breaks, which has plenty, it’s super hard to fix. OEM has nothing like visual sql ...

We’ve just added talks on Exadata and MySQL starting at 1:15-2pm today. In summary 1:15-2pm Exadata and MySQL 2pm Gwen Shapira on...

Rest assured, Kevin has left his bow and arrow at home this time. We are working on a hands on presentation complete with hunting...