December 2009

My first contact with the log miner

I have never really played with log miner, but used it many times implicitly for streams.…
Restore table statistics

UPDATE 230306 this post was originally written in December 2009. The examples have been verified &…
Recreate the standby controlfile when using ASM

This is in reply to some work I was supposed to carry out over the weekend…
Explain plan doesn’t peek at variables

I was trying to experiment with the 11g SQL Plan Management feature when stumbing across this.…
UKOUG Conference-session review part 3

The final installment of this series deals with Tom Kyte’s top 10 features in 11.2 and…
Let there be multipathing (when there wasn’t before)

One of the projects I was working on recently couldn’t be finished as it should have…
UKOUG conference 2009-session review part 2

This is the second part of my review of UKOUG conference 2009, day 1. Check out…
Do not shut down ASM when dropping a disk

I was doing some maintenance today with an ASM disk group (10.2.0.4.1 64bit on RHEL 5.3).…
A day at UKOUG Conference in Birmingham

What a great decision to go to UKOUG #tech_ebs on Monday! I’ve managed to see presentations…