Daily Archives Wednesday, April 2008

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IOPS in a Very High-End NFS Environment?

Since I’m on site at a Beta customer (testing the product I work on at Oracle), this will be a quick blog entry. I’ve been meaning to direct folks to Gear6 for quite some time now. I have no stake in Gear6, so this is not a shameless plug. I think they solve interesting problems [...]

RMAN-08137: WARNING: archive log not deleted as it is still needed

A couple days ago my network link to my standby databases went dark in the middle of the night. My dbs took notice and started generating log shipping errors in the alert.log. About 10 minutes later, I got a page from my standby db that said his gap wa…

Back to normality…

Yesterday was so confusing. The obvious April fools day jokes were fine, but I found myself starting to doubt everything. Towards the end of the day I started to just mark posts as read because I couldn’t be bothered to try and decide if they were fictitious or not. If any one said anything really [...]

Discarding the Output of a Select Statement

I’ve wondered before about a convenient way to tackle a particular problem — you want to run a select for a big bunch of rows, maybe for measuring wait events for a tricky query, but you want to discard the output so you don’t incur the network traffic and waits to the client. You could [...]

April Fool’s on Mix?

The Mix traffic stats from today show more than double the pageviews (8,200) and visits (1,000) we normally get.
These numbers are as of an hour ago, so they will continue to climb slightly as the day comes to a close. They are the highest that I can recall since we launched at OpenWorld in November [...]