This is installment number two in my series on Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine frequently asked questions. I recommend you also visit Exadata Storage Server frequently asked questions Part I.
Later today The Pythian Group will be conducting a podcast question and answer interview with me that will be available on their [...]
Have you ever created an index on a column with a name like “last_update_date” – or maybe even a function-based index on “trunc(last_update_date)” ?
You can probably guess the purpose of the column from its name – but could you also guess what state that index is going to be in a few weeks after you’ve [...]
There are a few expressions in the industry that irritate me - not necessarily for good reason but simply because they sound like the extremes of pretentiousness and marketing put together. (Pretentious, moi !)
For example: “root cause analysis”, “holistic methods” and so on - it’s all those little ways of saying “we’re doing just the same [...]
So now OpenWorld 2008 is over, and San Franciscans rejoice as Howard Street reopens between 3rd and 4th, or at least it will soon.
I missed my Wednesday recap, since we spent Thursday sequestered in that same old conference room in Pleasanton. Not a lot happened for me on Wednesday.
Rich and I trolled the exhibit floors [...]
IntroductionHabari is a blogging platform, created back in January 2007 and in the subsequent 18 moinths, the software has matured and version 0.5.1 was recently released.Originally, I downloaded and experimented with Habari late in 2007 but it wasn’t …
updatedb and locate are parts of the findutils package, which exists since a long time on most unix / linux flavors.
Something I never get worked is to search for files on network drives with Cygwin, I always got :
find: /cygdrive/y/Favorites/Links/del changed during execution of find (old inode number -474324984, new inode number -44545478
4, filesystem type [...]
Today was the final day at Open World, with a number of sessions on the new Exadata Storage Server and the Oracle Database Machine data warehouse appliance, together with the Oracle ACE Directors’ Birds of a Feather Panel Session kindly organized by Lewis Cunningham. In the end we had six ACE Directors on the stage [...]
I’m just catching up now on my Open World notes, as I’m staying for an extra day to go to Redwood Shores tomorrow for a meeting with the OWB product development team. Wednesday (Day 4) was my first day without any presentations, and with Larry’s keynote during the early afternoon I managed to go to [...]
Today was a very full day…
Real-World Database Performance Techniques and Methods
Real-World Database Performance Roundtable
I went to the primer session on Tuesday and both sessions today. I don’t think there was anything particularly new to me here, but listening to the experiences of a team like that helps you crystallize things in your mind. The three [...]
I expected Oracle Exadata Storage Server to make an instant splash, but the blogosphere has really taken off like a rocket with the topic. Unfortunately there is already quite a bit of misinformation out there. I’d like to approach this with routine quasi-frequently asked question posts. When I find misinformation, I’ll make a blog update. [...]