The ORACLE-BASE Blog

Sessions: Kevin Closson cancelled his session, which was a bummer, but life goes on. Oracle Optimizer Roundtable: Some members of the optimizer team answered the audience questions. Real-World Database Performance Roundtable: Members of this group answered questions from the audience on a variety of performance related subjects. The roundtable sessions were pretty cool, but it [...]

Some of the data warehousing and Exadata presentations have talked about queuing requests to improve performance. They have suggested that using Resource Manager to throttle the number of active requests results in better performance/throughput compared to letting multiple requests all run simultaneously. The Terabyte Hour session yesterday showed an example of this and sure enough, [...]

Despite all the geek fun, there is a downside to OOW. I for one will be visiting the doctor when I get back to the UK to ask for some Prozac. Why? I’m depressed due to multi-angle-envy. What? I’ve seen some excellent presenters whose technique is so slick it makes me sick. I’m not talking [...]

The Develop day is my first conference day, but I guess for most people it is Day -1. After purposely leaving my calendar empty, I ended up filling the day quite well. What Are We Still Doing Wrong? by Tom Kyte: It’s always a pleasure to hear Tom speak. He always has a good balance [...]