Posts Categorized: Oracle

A Look at SQL Plan Management

The goal of SQL Plan Management is to provide a consistent execution plan regardless of changes made to the database environment. While consistency is great in the face of changes to an environment, it is important not to miss out when changes would improve the runtime execution. SQL Plan Management has three components that meet this goal.

Log Buffer #314, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

It is an industry norm, supported by analyst researches that blogs are the best informal medium to share the information.  This unique medium provides readers with increased leverage in negotiating the hard turns in their technological lives. Log Buffer makes that leverage more powerful.

COLLABORATE 13 à la Pythian …

As per many previous IOUG/OAUG/Quest shows, Pythian is will be in Denver next week! It was a sunny day in the fall of 1991 when I gave my first paper at International Oracle User Week (IOUW), a pre-cursor to COLLABORATE and a few earlier incarnations called IOUG-Live and IOUG-Alive! It has been a whirlwind of…

How I Put My Collaborate Agenda Together

It is less than a week before the Collaborate 2013 conference. Most of us are busy putting together our individual agendas for what is shaping up to be a very exciting week. There are so many interesting sessions to choose from! Conference organizers kindly introduced a Show Planner to make planning a bit easier, but in this blog post, I will share with you how I created my agenda for Collaborate.

How to Get the Most Out of Collaborate! Talking from Experience

First, the most important advice I can give you is to relax and have FUN! Personal Experience Until recently, most of the conferences I participated in were very stressful for me personally. My very first big conference was back in 2000 – the Oracle User Group conference in Copenhagen. Since then, I have participated in 1 or 2 conferences…

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