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kyle Hailey
Jan 29, 20102 min read
Oracle Redo Log Waits
In an ongoing effort to document the main Oracle wait events, here is my current effort at documenting Oracle’s redo log related wait...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 25, 20101 min read
The most common passwords!
Get the full story at http://www.imperva.com/docs/WP_Consumer_Password_Worst_Practices.pdf 32 Million passwords were analyzed at...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 24, 20103 min read
ASH simulation Scripts (SASH and SASHMON)
(see http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/sash-1) I’ve gotten a few questions on SASH and SASHMON recently, so I...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 18, 20101 min read
BAARF – Battle against any raid 5
BAARF – Battle Against any Raid Five http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html In the chart below, 1 represents good and 5 represents...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 18, 20101 min read
IO operations per second
Vendors say that read cache will take care of IO Operations per sec, but if you have a sustained throughput it will only sustain for so...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 14, 20106 min read
Oracle Waits – latch : cache buffer chains
(article best formated at link:http://tinyurl.com/ybyjazq) Waits on the cache buffer chains latch, ie the wait event “latch: cache...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 13, 20101 min read
Hadoop
Ideas and quotes form original article by Guy Harrison on Hadoop Sets its Sights on Enterprise Computing Google’s algorithms have been...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 12, 20101 min read
Data Visualization
http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ I’m always interested in new, innovative and powerful ways to...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 12, 20109 min read
Oracle Wait: Buffer Busy Wait
Article originally on (with better formating) http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation/oracle-buffer-busy-wait...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 11, 20101 min read
Improved Oracle searches on Google
Often when searching for information on Oracle via Google, the first links that show up are sites that lack any depth or rigor and I...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 9, 20103 min read
Machine, application or database ?! Where’s the bottleneck?
When a bottleneck happens how can you know whether It’s an application problem Machine is undersized SQL requires optimization Database...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 8, 20109 min read
A Sampling We Will Go
Oracle wait events took years to become widely known for their power in performance tuning. With this article you’ll be able to beat the...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 6, 20101 min read
KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid
I like this guys attitude: Information architecture should be focused on making it easier to understand and navigate content — as quickly...
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kyle Hailey
Jan 4, 20104 min read
Visually Identifying SQL Optimizer Weaknesses
Did you know that Oracle only joins one table at a time? As Dan Tow puts in his book “SQL Tuning“ [Oracle] simply takes what it’s got at...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 30, 20091 min read
Outer Joins Graphically
Outer Joins If English and French both have a unique key on the “ordinal_id” then it’s basically one-to-one relationship We add an arrow...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 24, 20095 min read
Visual SQL Tuning
How would you go about tuning a query like this? SELECTa0.af1,a0.af2,a0.af3,c.af4,e.ef1,FROMa a0,(SELECT a1.af5, a1.af6, a1.af1,...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 17, 20091 min read
Browser Size, Web Tools and the Fold line
When i was working on OEM, one of my many pet peaves was the size of browser pages, wasted space and data below the “fold line”. Here is...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 15, 20091 min read
Oracle Wait Events: os-thread-startup
One goal I have over the next couple months is creating organized documentation on Oracle Wait events. One event, os-thread-startup, is...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 8, 20093 min read
Changing performance strategies for modern operations
Three important factors to take into account in performance tuning of database operations: · Automation · Methodology · Collaboration...
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kyle Hailey
Dec 8, 20091 min read
Taming the Performance Beast
Presented with Forrester’s Noel Yuhanna. Noel presented on the trends that are effecting performance, why it is critical to maintain...
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