Miscellaneous

How To Produce Raw, Spreadsheet-Ready Physical I/O Data With PL/SQL. Good For Exadata, Good For Traditional Storage.

Little Things Doth Crabby Make – Part VIII. Hugepage Support for Oracle Database 11g Sometimes Means Using The ipcrm Command. Ugh.
Intel Hyperthreading Does Little for Oracle Workloads. Who Cares? I Want My Xeon 5500 CPU with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT)!

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part I. Enterprise Linux 5/RHEL5 Output Format Change for the iostat Command

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part II and Introducing the Oracle Data Administrator.

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part III. Non-Erroring Errors and Erroneous Experiments.

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part IV. Shared Disk for Oracle11g Clusterware: Not Shared Unless Writable.

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part V. Oracle Professionals Have No Experience Beyond Oracle. Didn’t You Know That?

Little Things Doth Crabby Make Part VI. Oracle Database 11g Automatic Storage Management Doesn’t Work. Exadata Requires ASM So Exadata Doesn’t Work.

Little Things Doth Crabby Make – Part VII. Oracle Database 11g Index Fragmentation?

Attempted Murder of a 4-Socket AMD Opteron Server with RHEL4. Oracle Can’t Kill It.

Oracle Clusterware for Non-Real Application Clusters Purposes.

Oracle’s Latest Filesystem Offering. Shades of AdvFS. I Want My OLT.

Using Linux Processor Affinity to Beat the Oracle Licensing Police

Yet Another RAC Install Guide. This One’s For NFS.

The oracle-validated-100-4el4×86_64.rpm Package

GridSQL for EnterpriseDB: Better than RAC Since It’s Shared-Nothing

Using Linux Processor Affinity To Beat the Oracle Licensing Police

EnterpriseDB: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Oracle Licenses.

Application Server Benchmark Proves PostgreSQL Is the Best Enterprise Database Server

Oracle Faces Fierce Competition in the SMB Space

Oracle RDBMS Technology is Old and Obsolete!

Oracle on Virtual Machines. Going Fishing? Intel “Nehalem” Xeon Processor Floats!

Installing Oracle on RHEL5

Database Systems Pioneer Starts Database Company.

Oracle Upgrades are “A Lot Easier!” What About All Those Patches?

Migrate from Windows to Linux. The Stupid Quote of the Day.

Nifty ”Toys”

Oracle and EMC Are No Longer Proprietary

Oracle Certified Master Listing Finally Updated

PolyServe Software Solutions Receive Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Wishing Your Competitors Well. Isilon (ISLN) IPO. No Techno-Religion on This Blog!

Oracle on Windows: Hate Your Benefactor, but Not Your Yacht.

No Blog Entries Over The Weekend!

No Humans Needed for Microsoft Technology, but Microsoft Needs Tax Relief.

Ouch! Migrating an Oracle7 Database from OpenVMS to Oracle10g on Linux.

Sun to Produce Xeon-based Servers. Linux for Oracle on x86_64? Really? Why? Unbreakable Solaris!