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Dan Tow, in his book SQL Tuning, lays out a simple method of tuning SQL queries. The method is Draw a diagram of each table in the query...

Upgrading is always stressful – be it a computer, an Oracle database or an iPhone. There’s always a good chance for lost data and lost...

Every so often a DSS query that usually takes 10 minutes ends up taking over an hour.  (or one that takes an hour never seems to finish)...

Excited to see the announcement of Amazon RDS Performance Insight feature for database performance monitoring and tuning. Having met the...

I would think installing SQL*Plus on the Mac would be point, click download, point click, install bam it works. Nah It did install mostly...

(Disclamer: any opinions expressed here are fully my own and not representative of my employer) photo by alvaroprieto  (cc 2.0) Super...

Having take a new job at Amazon just two weeks ago and moving to Seattle (!)  I didn’t have the time nor was it practical to set up...

It’s frustrating to have to spend time jumping off into web security and wordpress configurations when there are so many other things...

This site had been running for a years with no big issues. I had performance and system saturation issues about 3 years ago and then...

Session ID: UGF3110 Advanced Active Session History Analytics Moscone West—3020 09/18/16, 03:30:00 PM – 04:15:00 PM

More news coming, but for now, we (family and I) are moving to Seattle! We will be giving up our gorgeous rental house in San Francisco...

Masking with Delphix (where duplicate blocks are shared making a new copy almost free storage wise and almost instantaneous) has 4 big...

Someone just asked on the Delphix Forums whether they could test Delphix replication with the free version of Delphix called Delphix...

Oaktable World Las Vegas is happening at Collaborate 2016! Many thanks to Tim Gorman, Alex Gorbachev and Mark Farnham for organizing! ...

I’ve received a number of inquiries lately about the support of DB2 on Delphix and yes, Delphix 5.0 now supports full automation of...

Overcoming Your Oracle Data Insecurity Webinar – Wednesday, March 30 – 10am PT In 2016, the risks and reasons why companies should secure...

NFS is the future, has larger bandwidth than FC, market is growing faster than FC, cheaper, easier, more flexible, cloud ready and...

Next Tuesday at 11:20 am at Oracle headquarters there will be a panel discussion on SQL. You can participate whether you are there or not...

In my last blog I talked about trying out Jenkins. In this blog post I want to talk about the new Jenkins plugin for Delphix. Delphix...

Jenkins seems to be the top code build, integration and QA automation tool to support continuous delivery. Jenkins allows me to kick of...