Resource Library
Webinars
- Oracle RAC Workload Management with Alex Gorbachev (Quicktime, 26.8 Mb)
- Oracle RAC — Why VIPs? with Alex Gorbachev
- Oracle 10g Block Change Tracking Inside Out (ppt 555kb)
- Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 by Sheeri K. Cabral
Papers & Books
- MySQL Administrator's Bible by Sheeri K. Cabral
- Oracle RAC Workload Management Whitepaper by Alex Gorbachev
- 8 Rules for Designing More Secure Applications with MySQL
- Pythian in eWeek: The Backstory by Paul Vallée
- What is Behind Pythian’s Growth and Market Success? by Paul Vallée
- The Seven Deadly Habits of a DBA ... and How to Cure Them by Paul Vallée
- The Quick and Easy RMAN Restore
- Downloading from OTN Directly to your Database Server
- How to Install 32-bit Oracle on an x86-64 Platform
- Oracle 10g Block Change Tracking Inside Out by Alex Gorbachev
- Extending Oracle 10g Grid Control
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Blog
My SLOB IO testing index
Yury Velikanov
Martin Berger suggested to create this page to keep track of blog posts related SLOB IO testing. Here it is Martin ;) If you seriously interested to get a good understanding of yours IO subsystem performance characteristics then one of the tools that you may consider for putting your’s system IO on stress is SLOB. See Introducing SLOB [...]
My First Experience Running SLOB – Don’t repeat my errors (AWR)
Yury Velikanov
If you are wondering what I am busy with then this post explains it. As you may noticed I am still testing one of the Oracle systems using the SLOB framework and learning on my way. I ran several tests with the same parameters (Readers 24) and I noticed that for one reason or another awr.txt reports [...]
OEM12c Discovery of Exadata Cluster
Fahd Mirza
dbm_configurator.xls is needed to generate databasemachine.xml file which is needed by OEM 12c to discover an exadata cluster. Following is a step by step process as how to generate databasemachine.xml file to be used with OEM 12c: 1) Get the dbm_configurator70.xls file from /opt/oracle.SupportTools/onecommand directory from the first compute node of Exadata cluster. 2) Also [...]
Insider’s Guide to ODA Performance
Gwen Shapira
I have a confession to make: I hate webinars. I find it difficult to concentrate on a disembodies voice. I typically get distracted and find myself checking email and blogs even during the best webinars. Watching a webinar is a bit like watching DVD of a live show – not as fun as live show, [...]
