Using the Oracle Wait Interface to Troubleshoot I/O Issues
Or, Why I Like Broccoli and Wait Events There’s been a fair bit of discussion with respect to whose...
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Oracle Data Pump Schema Export and Public Synonyms
While testing a migration today with one of our clients, I figured out that schema export using...
Oracle Support Case Studies
As I was poking around metalink, I found the following extremely interesting section. It’s in a...
Oracle block corruptions, DBV vs RMAN
Over-the-Top Tales from the Trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of every day DBA life....
Basic I/O Monitoring on Linux
This is my fourth week at Pythian and in Canada and I'm starting to get back to my normal life...
The Mysterious World of Shmmax and Shmall
Over the Top Tales from the trenches. Motto: Bringing order to the chaos of every day DBA life....
Oracle: How to move a table to another schema?
A client asked me, “How can I move a table to another schema in Oracle?” The quick answer I gave...
Oracle 10g R2 RAC - vip on wrong interface
I was installing RAC, and during the clusterware install I picked up the wrong interfaces for...
ASM multi-disk performance
If you have the ability to combine disk spindles at both the SAN level and Oracle (ASM) level,...
Silly DBA Tricks 1: Editing the SPFILE
Here is an article I posted on the Oracle-L mailing list recently. Much to my surprise, people...
