October 3, 2013 archive

CBO Statistics White Paper

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, I attended a presentation by Jonathon Lewis, who of course is one of the world’s leading Oracle experts especially when it comes to the Cost Based Optimizer (CBO). As is usually the case, the room was completely packed for his presentation. He had a co-presenter, Maria Colgan who works for Oracle …

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One of my typical days

Yesterday morning, I ran across this blog entry from Bobby Durrett’s blog about a typical day in his life as a DBA. So I figured I would have some similar fun and document my workday. So here is how my day went yesterday: 7:30 – Got to work. Checked email to make sure there was …

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