I received an email a litle while ago with an unusual problem. It said:
“One of the jobs which used to take more than one hour to complete is now completing in less than 10 minutes. Neither the application developer nor we (the DBA’s) made *any* changes in the environment/code/database. I can’t work out why [...]
Reminder
UKOUG 2008 Conference & Exhibition, 1st – 5th December at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom - an agenda covering 5 days, with over 400 sessions and an exhibition with over 100 stands lasting 4 days. Ticket types range from a 1 day pass to a 5 day pass
This year the UKOUG 2008 Conference & Exhibition [...]
In the last five years I’ve visited more than thirty different countries and seen a lot of wonderful sights - some natural,some man-made. But Sunday was the first time I’ve walked into a hotel room and been overwhelmed by the view.
I was in Athens, staying at the Hilton, in a room facing the Acropolis - [...]
Browsing around over the weeend, I came across this blog.
I didn’t spend much time reading through the material, but at first sight I got the impression that a number of the articles might be useful to people who were starting to experiment with RAC systems and could do with some step by step guidance when [...]
Here’s a summary of a question that appeared on the Oracle Forum some time ago:
I had been seeing frequent log file switching (resulting in “checkpoint not complete” reports) at night when some export dumps have to occur simultaneously, so I increased my redo log file sizes from 5MB to 10MB.
I now have a user who [...]
I’ve just been sent an email about an event in Edinburgh next month, featuring Chris Date in a two-day seminar titled “A Relational Approach to SQL” - plus a half-day forum on the third day.
The event is organised by the e-Science Institute, with assistance from Oracle. Thanks for the assistence from Oracle, the cost to [...]
It’s been over a year now since Don Burleson published his “biased test cases” article. He removed it from his website after I had pointed out that his behaviour was likely to damage his reputation more than it would damage mine - at which point I deleted all the associated comments from my blog. Sadly, [...]
I posted a summary of page hits a little while ago when the WordPress statistics hit 750,000 page views, and commented at the time that a couple of the most popular items seemed to be related to the types of issue you get when you upgrade to 10g.
Well, it occurred to me this morning to [...]
I don’t really have anything to do with XMLDB (beyond the fact that it’s an application built in an Oracle database, of course, and subject to tuning and bugs just like any other application), so it was nice to get an email last night from Marco Gralike telling me that the next release of XMLDB [...]
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The following question appeared some time ago on the Oracle Forum:
Event Waits Time(s) Avg Wait(ms) % Total Call Time Wait Class
CPU time [...]