July 2017 archive

The Performance Tuning Maze

One day, you wake up and find that you are an Oracle database administrator. The gods have finally seen the light to your true potential and allowed you to work in the best job in the world! You begin your DBA career so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. You’re creating new databases, granting privileges, writing PL/SQL code. …

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Yet Another Reason To Upgrade

As I usually do, I fire up lots of questions on the MOSC and OTN forums and pick and choose which ones I want to answer. This morning, I came across a post from a user who was asking questions about Oracle 9i. As expected, this user got the anticipated responses from the forum faithful …

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