Maris Elsins

Maris Elsins is an experienced Oracle Applications DBA currently working as Lead Database Consultant at The Pythian Group. His main areas of expertise are troubleshooting and performance tuning of Oracle Database and e-Business Suite systems. He is a blogger and a frequent speaker at Oracle related conferences such as UKOUG, Collaborate, Oracle OpenWorld, HotSos, and others. Maris is an Oracle ACE, an Oracle Certified Master, and a co-author of “Practical Oracle Database Appliance” (Apress, 2014). He's also a member of the board at Latvian Oracle User Group.

Google Cloud Platform

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 2

Mar 14, 2019 12:00:00 AM 12 min read

Oracle

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

Mar 13, 2019 12:00:00 AM 11 min read

Using Docker to provide self-service database patching

Nov 20, 2018 12:00:00 AM 12 min read

Redo volume optimization in 12c R2

Jun 26, 2018 12:00:00 AM 7 min read

Oracle

Automating password rotation for Oracle databases

May 26, 2017 12:00:00 AM 11 min read

Microsoft Azure

Investigating IO performance on Amazon EC2

Dec 30, 2016 12:00:00 AM 7 min read

Oracle

Investigating IO performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle

Dec 13, 2016 12:00:00 AM 9 min read

Oracle

The getMOSPatch V2 is here!

Jul 7, 2016 12:00:00 AM 3 min read

MySQL

Internals of querying the concurrent requests' queue - revisited for R12.2

Apr 19, 2016 12:00:00 AM 7 min read

Is Oracle smart flash cache a "SPOF"?

Dec 17, 2015 12:00:00 AM 7 min read

Big Data

Handling the Leap Second - Linux

Jun 2, 2015 12:00:00 AM 8 min read

Using the ILOM for troubleshooting on ODA

Sep 17, 2014 12:00:00 AM 4 min read

Google Cloud Platform

Do AWR Reports Show the Whole Picture?

Jan 27, 2014 12:00:00 AM 4 min read

MySQL

Meaning of "Disk Reads" Values in DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT

Nov 6, 2013 12:00:00 AM 6 min read

Oracle

Mining the AWR to Identify Performance Trends

Oct 31, 2013 12:00:00 AM 8 min read

There's Always Another Bug Hiding Just Around the Corner

Aug 14, 2013 12:00:00 AM 6 min read

Oracle

Be Warned: cmclean.sql Is Dangerous!

Jul 18, 2013 12:00:00 AM 5 min read

Oracle

Performance Settings of Concurrent Managers

Mar 27, 2013 12:00:00 AM 7 min read

The Internal Workflow of an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager Process

Mar 21, 2013 12:00:00 AM 4 min read

The Easy Way of Finding Similar SQL Statements

Jan 24, 2013 12:00:00 AM 3 min read

R12.2 online patching – What are the hidden costs?

Jan 9, 2012 12:00:00 AM 5 min read

What We Do

Maris Elsins

Posts by Maris Elsins

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 2

How to build a cost-effective serverless blogging platform on GCP - Part 1

Using Docker to provide self-service database patching

Redo volume optimization in 12c R2

Automating password rotation for Oracle databases

Investigating IO performance on Amazon EC2

Investigating IO performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle

The getMOSPatch V2 is here!

Internals of querying the concurrent requests' queue - revisited for R12.2

Is Oracle smart flash cache a "SPOF"?

Handling the Leap Second - Linux

Using the ILOM for troubleshooting on ODA

Do AWR Reports Show the Whole Picture?

Meaning of "Disk Reads" Values in DBA_HIST_SQLSTAT

Mining the AWR to Identify Performance Trends

There's Always Another Bug Hiding Just Around the Corner

Be Warned: cmclean.sql Is Dangerous!

Performance Settings of Concurrent Managers

The Internal Workflow of an E-Business Suite Concurrent Manager Process

The Easy Way of Finding Similar SQL Statements

R12.2 online patching – What are the hidden costs?