January 2016 archive

Complacency leads to: Risk Becomes Reality

I was participating in a recent thread on the OTN community where someone was asking questions about downgrading after a database upgrade. One of the responses asked how many people actually practice database downgrades. I created this poll to find out. I was surprised to find one contribution to that thread which said: I have …

Continue reading

Identifying ASH Sequence Contention in RAC

In Chapter 3 of Oracle RAC Performance Tuning, I showed how improper CACHE values for sequences can cause poor performance in Oracle RAC. I also showed how to spot sequence contention when looking at a session’s wait events. Today, I was working with a developer who was creating a new sequence. The developer had a …

Continue reading