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Sunday, September 30, 2012

OOW12: Beginning Performance Tuning

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Thank you very much for coming to my session "Beginning Performance Tuning" on the #IOUG track at #OOW12 Oracle Open World 2012. I...
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Friday, June 08, 2012

Quiz: Mystery of Create Table Statement

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Happy Friday! I thought I would jumpstart your creative juices with this little, really simple quiz. While it's trivial, it may not be t...
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Thursday, June 07, 2012

What to Learn from LinkedIn Password Hack as an Oracle DBA

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One of the major news today was the hacking and resultant publishing of passwords in LinkedIn . Didn't hear about it? Well, read it here...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Collaborate 2012 Sessions and Select Article

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Thank you all who came to my sessions at #IOUG Collaborate 2012 #C12LV on April 22-24 in Las Vegas. I had four full sessions, two panels an...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

The Arup Nanda Blog: AIOUG Webcast:Methodical Performance Tuning Part 2

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The Arup Nanda Blog: AIOUG Webcast:Methodical Performance Tuning Part 2
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AIOUG Webcast:Methodical Performance Tuning Part 2

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Thank you all for attending the Part 2 of the Methodical Performance Tuning series. I hope you got something out of the 1 hour long session....
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Revived Boston Area DBA SIG Meeting

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The DBA SIG of the Northeast Oracle User Group has been revived (thank you, Lyson and Jeane) and I was honored to be the speaker of the fir...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Revived NOUG DBA SIG Events

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Congratulations to North East Oracle User Group in the Boston area who has restarted the DBA SIG. This was a highly successful program tha...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

AIOUG Webcast: Methodical Performance Tuning

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A big thank you to all those you attended my session today. I sincerely hope you got something out of it. Here are the scripts I used in the...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Migration to Exadata Session at #OOW11

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Considering it was the last session of #OOW11 I was surprised to see a sizable number of folks showing up for my 3rd and final session slate...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Rise of the Machines

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This is the penultimate day of #OOW11 and I am here at the hotel lobby trying to put some order around the myriads of nuggets of information...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Unicode Migration Assistant for Oracle

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When you want to convert a database created in the default characterset to a multibyte characterset, there were two basic approaches - the s...
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OOW11 Session #2 Exadata Management

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Thank you all for attending my second session in #OOW11 - Exadata Management. You can download the slide deck here. Important: DO NOT CLICK ...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

OOW11 Presentation: Exadata for Oracle DBAs

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Thank you very much for attending my session "Exadata for Oracle DBAs" at #OOW11 (Oracle Open World), 2011. Here are the links to...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Setting Up Oracle Connection Manager

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The Problem It seems really simple. We have an Oracle database (on all nodes of a full rack Exadata, to be exact), which a lot of end-user...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Difference between Select Any Dictionary and Select_Catalog_Role

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When you want to give a user the privilege to select from data dictionary and dynamic performance views such as V$DATAFILE, you have two opt...
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Who Manages the Exadata Machine?

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For organizations that just procured an Exadata machine, one of the big questions is bound to be about the group supporting it. Who should i...
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Feedback on Tanel Poder's AOTS #2 Class

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In my earlier post I me wrote about  Tanel Poder's Virtual Class #2 .   Tanel is a world famous expert in Oracle internals. I was fortun...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

Tanel Poder's Virtual Class #2

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On a fine day in some month in some year, a little scene is playing out in Acme Bank's IT department. Developer (with the best I-told-...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nulls in Ordering

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You want to find out the tables with the highest number of rows in a database. Pretty simple, right? You whip up the following query: sele...
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