I’m headed to Las Vegas for Collaborate / IOUG on Sunday. Looking forward to learning a ton and getting the chance to listen to some of the super smart DBAs I follow online. And a little bit of Vegas fun of course.
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IOUG / Collaborate
Posted in General on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Index rebuilds in parallel change the parallel DEGREE
Posted in General, Parallelism on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As many of the comments to this handy article echo, we got stung by this one today. Definitely check out the article. After a large data shuffle with some new partioning, involving index rebuilds, we saw a huge load on the server. Didn’t take long to see that we had a query utilizing over 80 [...]
REDO and UNDO – the ‘why’ behind them
Posted in General, How Oracle Works, tagged oracle, redo, undo on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fantastic article by Jonathan Lewis on why Oracle couldn’t just use REDO to cover the purposes of both UNDO and REDO.
Striking out from the bank …
Posted in General on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In 2008, after a few years in support, eight years as a programmer, and four years as an IT manager, I wanted a change and moved into an Oracle DBA role. I hoped to chronicle the experience and tracks bits of flotsam that helped me along the way, but the first year was such a [...]
