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Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th) To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this
Upgrading to 11g Release Grid Infrastructure? You probably want to read on…
Is it Friday already? Where does the time go? Lots of stuff going on this week–here’s a few of the things that I found interesting.
The 181st edition of Log Buffer has been published by Gary Myers on his Sydney Oracle Lab.
One of the things I love about Git is how I can add branches from remote repositories in mine at will without fearing messing up anything. The remote branches will not clash with mine, even if they share the same names, because they are referenced as repository/branch. However, as for anything else, you can still poke yourself in the eye if you try hard enough…
ust a quick announcements…If you didn’t manage to attend my presentation, Oracle 11g ASM — The Evolution, during RMOUG or other conferences, you have a chance to see it online today. I’m doing it a web-cast at RAC SIG. It’s today, 4-Mar-10 at 12:00pm EST (9:00am PST).
Here are the slides from my presentation at RMOUG 2010. I am not sure how much sense all this will make without my comments. We may do it in a webinar if there is sufficient interest. Regardless I will probably be doing it again at some point in the future.
If I told you that your database had a ratio of temporary tables written to disk of 20%, you might think “aha, my database is slow because of a lot of file I/O caused by writing temporary tables to disk!”. However, that 20% ratio may actually mean a rate of 2 per hour — which is most likely not causing excessive I/O. To get a sense of this concept, and also how mysqltuner works, I will show the lines from the mysqltuner default configuration that deal with temporary tables written to disk.
I recently granted ALTER access in MySQL so a user could run the ALTER TABLE command . However after I granted the necessary privileges, the user was still not able to perform the tasks needed. Then I realized what the issue was and how to fix it.
Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of the usually, mostly, kind of weekly news for System Administrators. I was on a much needed holiday for the last couple of weeks. Many thanks to Tim for filling in on the last one. What with clients’ priorities and February being a short month, we did not have the cycles to get a blog out last week, and this one will be short because, frankly, the IT news world has been a bit slow of late. With that I shall cease my preface and move on to . . .
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