12c Release 1

UKOUG post conference geek update part 1 – ACFS for Oracle databases

One of the many interesting things I heard at the conference this time around was that…
Little things worth knowing: creating the Swingbench order entry schema “lights out”

This is a little note, primarily to myself I guess, about the creation of the order…
Concurrent statistics gathering in 12.1.0.2

Prompted by an actual task at hand I spent some time investigating an 11.2.0.2 feature – concurrent…
Little things worth knowing: ORACLE_SID, instance_name and the database names in Clusterware

If you ever wanted to know how Clusterware works with registered database resources, read on! It…
Interesting observations executing SLOB2 with ext4 and xfs on SSD

My lab server has 2 SSDs, one is connected using SATA 2 and another is connected…
Exadata and Virtual Private Database: will it offload my query?

During one of the classes I taught about Exadata optimisations I had an interesting question: If…
Little things worth knowing-troubleshooting parallel statement queueing

This is yet another one of these posts that hopefully help you as much as they…
Interesting observation about standby redo logs in Data Guard

Some of you might have followed the discussion around the number of standby redo logs on…
Intra-Database IORM in action

I have been teaching the Enkitec Exadata Administration Class this week and made an interesting observation…
A brief history of time^H^H Oracle session statistics

I didn’t intend to write another blog post yesterday evening at all, but found something that was…