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		<title>BAAG, Best Practices and Multiple Choice Exams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the discussion in various MySQL blogs regarding the sort_buffer_size parameters. As an Oracle DBA, I don&#8217;t have an opinion on the subject, but the discussion did remind me of many discussions I&#8217;ve been involved in. What&#8217;s the best size for SDU? What is the right value for OPEN_CURSORS? How big should the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sort_buffer_size and Knowing Why</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In How to tune MySQL&#8217;s sort_buffer_size, Baron gives a condescending viewpoint on how to tune the sort_buffer_size variable in MySQL. In a much-nicer-nutshell, his advice is &#8220;do not change sort_buffer_size from the default.&#8221; Baron did not explain the logic behind his reasoning, he handwaves that &#8220;people utterly ruin their server performance and stability with it,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Doom of XtraDB and Percona Server?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines, Peter talks about how the storage engine concept of MySQL is usually spoken of in positive terms, but there are many negatives. I have a hard time trying to figure out the deeper meaning behind Peter&#8217;s post, given that Percona writes a storage engine for MySQL, XtraDB. Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting at NoCOUG Spring Conference &amp; Interview in NoCOUG Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never attended the North California Oracle User Group Conferences even though they are organized every quarter. However, I&#8217;ve been always jealous of the great agenda they put together. A couple months ago, Chen Shapira reminded me once again that the next NoCOUG conference was coming up and asked whether I would be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotsos Symposium 2010 &#8212; Battle Against Any Guess Is Won</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video fragments of my session posted at the end &#8212; read on. I arrived at Omni Mandalay Hotel on Sunday evening with Dan Norris. I was flying through Chicago and it turned out that Dan was on the same flight and only few rows behind me. Small world. Preparations for the conference were very chaotic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Oracle&#8217;s Block Change Tracking File Shrink?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to get myself back into blogging mode. Recently in IRC (#oracle on freenode, to be precise), a fresh face asked if the Block Change Tracking file ever shrinks. She had been worrying about the file in her instance continuing to grow. A number of us speculated (non-BAAG!) that perhaps taking an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotsos Symposium 2008 &#8211; The Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all &#8220;the before&#8221; time is over &#8212; I&#8217;m done with my presentation. It&#8217;s been the first slot of the day &#8212; 8:30 and Cary Milsap was presenting in another hall so what chances do I have to get people in? It turned out that some people actually did show up and quite a [...]]]></description>
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