Performance

If you use swingbench take note of sbutil

This is going to be a very short post for a change. I have used Swingbench…
Additional information on Oracle 12c big table caching

Teaching is on the things I like doing, and currently I am investigating the Oracle 12c…
Exadata Fast Data File Creation

This post is the result of some testing I performed on Exadata data file creation. You…
Limiting the Degree of Parallelism via Resource Manager and a gotcha

This might be something very obvious for the reader but I had an interesting revelation recently when implementing…
Pimp my collectl-advanced system monitoring using collect-utils part I

I have recently written about collectl, a truly superb troubleshooting utility, in a previous post. After…
An introduction to collectl

Some of you may have seen on twitter that I was working on understanding collectl. So…
Getting up and running with Universal Connection Pool – Take 2

In yesterday’s post (which is actually didn’t want to post that day) I wrote about the…
Getting up and running with Universal Connection Pool

UPDATE 1 Martin Nash (@mpnsh) kindly pointed out a mistake on the ONS configuration in the…
Viewing Runtime Load Balancing Events

Yesterday I have run a benchmark on a 2 node RAC cluster (ProLiant BL685c G6 with…
Incrementally gathering statistics in 10g

One of the cool new features of the Oracle 11g database is that you can copy…