Jared Still

"Oracle experience: started with Oracle 7.0.13 Programming Experience: Perl, PL/SQL, Shell, SQL Also some other odds and ends that are no longer useful Systems: Networking, Storage, OS to varying degrees. Have fond memories of DG/UX"

Featured blog posts

Oracle

Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml

Jared Still Published : May 21, 2025 Last Updated : May 21, 2025 7 min read

Oracle

Expand your Oracle Tuning Tools with dbms_utility.expand_sql_text

Jared Still Published : Jan 12, 2024 Last Updated : Jan 12, 2024 9 min read

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache

Jared Still Published : Jan 4, 2024 Last Updated : Jan 4, 2024 36 min read

Oracle

Oracle SQL Trace: Is it Safe for Production Use?

Jared Still Published : Sep 29, 2023 Last Updated : Oct 17, 2023 20 min read

Oracle

Backup Oracle to Amazon AWS S3 - Part 1

Jared Still Published : Aug 26, 2023 Last Updated : Mar 30, 2020 10 min read

Oracle

Sending email from Oracle with utl_smtp via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Sep 21, 2017 10 min read

Oracle

Oracle 12.2 ASM filter driver installation

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Dec 29, 2017 8 min read

Oracle

Oracle RAC: Network Performance with Jumbo Frames

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : May 14, 2020 9 min read

World Backup Day - Protect Your Oracle Databases

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Mar 31, 2020 14 min read

MySQL

More fun with oracle timestamp math

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Apr 4, 2016 16 min read

Using FreeRadius to Authorize Oracle Connections

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Mar 18, 2020 7 min read

Oracle

How to decipher oracle Internal datatype storage

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Dec 11, 2015 9 min read

What's eating my database? Where to focus performance efforts using Oracle AWR

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Sep 6, 2016 9 min read

Microsoft Azure

Analyze index validate structure - the dark side

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : May 13, 2016 10 min read

Oracle

Improve parsing and query performance - fix Oracle's fixed object statistics

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Apr 26, 2016 5 min read

Oracle

Installing OCI Command Line Utilities in Linux and Windows

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : May 20, 2020 17 min read

Microsoft SQL Server

Improve Oracle performance with ASM filter driver

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 25, 2018 15 min read

Oracle

How to create an Oracle 18c client image in Docker

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 14, 2019 5 min read

Oracle

How to use Oracle Instant Client Docker images

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 10, 2019 12 min read

Technical Track

Cleaning up PID files when Oracle GRID/RAC upgrades and patches fail

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 16, 2018 2 min read

Technical Track

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 22, 2018 6 min read

Microsoft SQL Server

How to display database statistics for all objects used in a SQL statement

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 17, 2018 3 min read

Oracle

How Linux Hugepages work to improve Oracle performance

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 23, 2018 3 min read

MySQL

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

Jared Still Published : Aug 24, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 24, 2018 5 min read

Oracle

Select vs Assign – How To Assign PL/SQL Variables

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Feb 8, 2021 8 min read

Oracle

How to Make Oracle Use the Correct Index

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Jan 25, 2021 19 min read

Oracle

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Sep 21, 2022 8 min read

Oracle

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Jul 12, 2022 8 min read

Oracle

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Mar 31, 2022 10 min read

Linux

SYSQL: SysAdmin Query Language

Jared Still Published : Jul 18, 2023 Last Updated : Jul 20, 2021 20 min read

Services

Jared Still

Posts by Jared Still

Featured blog posts

Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml

Expand your Oracle Tuning Tools with dbms_utility.expand_sql_text

Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache

Oracle SQL Trace: Is it Safe for Production Use?

Backup Oracle to Amazon AWS S3 - Part 1

Sending email from Oracle with utl_smtp via Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Oracle 12.2 ASM filter driver installation

Oracle RAC: Network Performance with Jumbo Frames

World Backup Day - Protect Your Oracle Databases

More fun with oracle timestamp math

Using FreeRadius to Authorize Oracle Connections

How to decipher oracle Internal datatype storage

What's eating my database? Where to focus performance efforts using Oracle AWR

Analyze index validate structure - the dark side

Improve parsing and query performance - fix Oracle's fixed object statistics

Installing OCI Command Line Utilities in Linux and Windows

Improve Oracle performance with ASM filter driver

How to create an Oracle 18c client image in Docker

How to use Oracle Instant Client Docker images

Cleaning up PID files when Oracle GRID/RAC upgrades and patches fail

CPU utilization is not a useful metric

How to display database statistics for all objects used in a SQL statement

How Linux Hugepages work to improve Oracle performance

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

Select vs Assign – How To Assign PL/SQL Variables

How to Make Oracle Use the Correct Index

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Automating Scripts Via SSH

SYSQL: SysAdmin Query Language

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