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A bug perhaps

OK in talking with Karen Morton and Jonathan Lewis it looked like a bug with the trace mechanism might be the root of the problem with the stat lines for a sort and not some new fancy way Oracle is doing the sorts. And I think that is true. Here is a…

Posted 06 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

SORTs, TIMEs and 11g

A while back I noticed that the TIME values in the STAT lines for an 11g Database weren’t adding up right if there was a sort operation in the plan. I talked with several folks and everyone agreed that this was going on but no one seemed to know why. …

Posted 26 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

SYM 2008

Another excellent symposium has come to an end. The speakers were great as always and Tom Kyte had a great training day to top everything off. Tuesday night was the party where the theme was “Bike Night”! What a hoot that was. Here I am in my get u…

Posted 08 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

And this week Ric is in….

Quite a change from Atlanta. They tell me the week before I got here it was rather nice, but the snow and cold arrived just in time for me. Humm there seems to be a pattern going on here… This a shot from the classroom facility. Very flat here, y…

Posted 28 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Where is Ric?

I’m haveing a great time in _____. Weather is nice and the view from my hotel is great compared to what it was on the west coast a little while ago. Here is a picture of the nice view from the window. Can you guess where I am? (Karen, Stacy and Mo…

Posted 13 November 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Fire in the West

I’ve been out here in Irvine CA teaching this week with the wild fires raging around the area. I haven’t been closer then 3-4 miles from the fires so not a big threat to me from the fire it self. However the smoke and ash from these fires is everywhe…

Posted 25 October 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

100,000

Back when I was a kid, a car turning over 100,000 miles was a big deal. The odometer on most cars back then didn’t even show 100,000. Today it’s pretty common for a car to “roll over” as we used to say. I was able to catch it happening on my car th…

Posted 15 August 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Summer Safety Tip: Vinyl Siding and Gas Grills

I suppose this happens to folks now and then, we forget to turn off the gas grill after cooking up some burgers for the family. Just be sure your grill isn’t close to the vinyl like we see here. Fortunately for this person (who will remain nameless) …

Posted 27 June 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

In Normandy

While here in Amsterdam I took a side trip this last week end to Normandy where the liberation of Europe started on June 6th 1944. I visited Pointe-Du-Hoc where the US Rangers climbed 100 foot cliffs to neutralizer an observation point which could hav…

Posted 29 May 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Going to Amsterdam

I’m going to Amsterdam next month to teach a couple of classes, so I thought I’d ask Google how to get there. Over all thing looked ok until I got to step 29:

Posted 18 April 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °