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Randolf Geist on 11g Incremental Statistics

Well it wasn’t the post I planned to return to technical matters with. Lots of readers here have asked me when I’m going to get round to
writing about 11g Incremental Statistics as part of the stats series. Although Incrementals are on my To Do list, …

Upcoming Conferences

At this time of year, I’m usually panicking about my Hotsos presentation/paper and up to my eyeballs in test scripts. I enjoy it and the absence feels a little strange, but I decided to do something different this year. Although it’s the 10th Symposiu…

UKOUG 2011 – Ash Outliers

My final UKOUG 2011 post is about another of my favourite presentations -  "ASH Outliers: Detecting Unusual Events in Active Session History" by John Beresniewicz. (JB for short, but Marco Gralike made a fairly good stab at pronouncing h…

UKOUG 2011 – Cary Millsap’s Keynote Videos

I noticed last week that the keynote presentation I discussed in a previous post is available on YouTube, in 5 parts ….Part 0Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4It was a strange experience watching it again because, although I recognise it as precisely the same …

Extended DISPLAY_CURSOR With Rowsource Statistics

Just a quick post to draw attention to Randolf Geist’s post here. Good stuff.