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Friday, April 19, 2013

Streams Pool is only for Streams? Think Again!

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If you don’t use the automatic SGA (i.e. set the sga_target=0 ) - something I frequently do - and don’t use Streams, you probably have set t...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Application Design is the only Reason for Deadlocks? Think Again

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[Updated on 4/20/2013 after feedback from Charles Hooper , Jonathan Lewis ,  Lau rent Schneider  and Mohamed Houri  and with some minor cosm...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Exadata Article as NYOUG's Article of the Year 2012

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The Editors of New York Oracle User Group (NYOUG) publication - TechJournal - chose my article Exadata Demystified as the Article of the...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

Switching Back to Regular Listener Log Format

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Did you ever miss the older listener log file format and want to turn off the ADR-style log introduced in 11g? Well, it's really very si...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

My Sessions in RMOUG 2013

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Many thanks for attending my sessions (I had a whopping four of them!) ar Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training Days 2013. I was pleasa...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Boston DBA SIG Feb 6, 2013 Meeting Materials

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Thank you all for coming to my session - Exadata from Beginner to Advanced in 3 Hours - on an evening in the dead of winter and staying for...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving Thoughts

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Today is Thanksgiving Day in the US. For those who are not familiar with American holidays and traditions, Thanksgiving is a really tribu...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Presentations at Philadelphia Area Oracle User Group 2012

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Thank you all those who came to my sessions at PHLOUG in November. You can download the presentations and the demo scripts I used here .
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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...
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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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