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		<title>When SHOW SLAVE STATUS lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over-the-Top Tales from the Trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of every day DBA life. So you have got your nice MySQL Master-Slave replication pair setup. Everything is sweet, then the master dies/restarts or you have a slightly extended network outage. Your monitoring software (in our case Avail) fires off a page and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Standby Recovery Rate Monitoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have created your standby database using the RMAN DUPLICATE command, you have set the ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET to maintain a minimum lag target, and you have sorted out those nasty datafile missing errors using automatic file management. You&#8217;ve even added standby redo logs to improve the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR). Now management are demanding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Standby redo Logs</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/581/oracle-standby-redo-logs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have created your standby database using the RMAN DUPLICATE command, you have set the minimum log switch individual using ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET, and you have sorted out those nasty &#8220;datafile missing&#8221; errors using automatic file management. Management is now happy with the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR)&#8230; but not really. They review the documentation generated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle: Standby Automatic File Management</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/484/oracle-standby-automatic-file-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 15:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you have followed the recipes to create a standby database, setup the database to switch logs automatically, and now, as with any good database, the space required to support the application grows and grows and grows. Eventually, using your monitoring software (in my case, Pythian&#8217;s avail or dailies), you get an alert suggesting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working as an Onsite DBA Together with Pythian</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/404/working-as-an-onsite-dba-together-with-pythian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/404/working-as-an-onsite-dba-together-with-pythian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-Tech Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Not on Homepage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pythian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a couple of items on gapingvoid the hughtrain the porous membrane: why corporate blogging works which inspired me to use our blog for a conversation with our customers (and with potential Pythian DBAs) about what it&#8217;s like to work with Pythian. What exactly does an on-site DBA get from working with Pythian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMAN Recipes: Switch Oracle Logs Automatically with ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/399/rman-recipes-switch-oracle-logs-automatically-with-archive_lag_target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you have swallowed the standby bait. You have used RMAN duplicate to create a sparkling new standby and things are looking rosy. Then, when you check the lag between the primary and standby (in MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE mode), you discover the standby is miles behind. You were expecting a solution that kept the standby as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMAN reports, or What Is the ETA of My Backup?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/376/rman-reports-or-what-is-the-eta-of-my-backup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/376/rman-reports-or-what-is-the-eta-of-my-backup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over-the-Top Tales from the Trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of every day DBA life. Dear Diary, Are we there yet? How much farther? Ever heard this during a recovery of a downed database? The poor thing has either a minor scratch, requires immediate attention, or is dead on arrival (DOA). You could cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Recipes: Connections per hostname Using Pager</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/382/mysql-recipes-connections-per-hostname-using-pager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/382/mysql-recipes-connections-per-hostname-using-pager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over-the-Top Tales from the Trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of every day DBA life. This diary has made you conversant in the world of RMAN standbys, duplicates and corruptions&#8230; exposed you to the world the hidden nature of shmmax. You have seen the nastiness of Oracle MONTHS_BETWEEN. What more worlds and mysteries are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL: Tuning filesorts and temporary tables</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/349/mysql-tuning-filesorts-and-temporary-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/349/mysql-tuning-filesorts-and-temporary-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goal: Getting rid of filesorts and temporary tables by tuning MySQL queries. Background: Filesorts and temp tables are a necessary evil in MySQL, used when MySQL must sort the data before returning the output to the user. They are the most common issue with slow queries in MySQL, the main reason being that if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Gotcha: months_between 31-days-per-month assumption</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/348/oracle-gotcha-months_between/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/348/oracle-gotcha-months_between/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over-the-Top Tales from the Trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of everyday DBA life. Dear Diary, Do you want to know a secret? Understanding it will prevent pain and gnashing of teeth, and also leave your face comfortably free of egg. Here it is: Some Oracle functions assume there are 31 days for each [...]]]></description>
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