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.

Recent stories

Google Cloud Platform

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

Welcome back to the 2nd part! Last time, we set up the tools that allowed managing the blog as a set of configuration ...

by Maris Elsins

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Oracle

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

I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was rewarding, too - both the ...

by Maris Elsins

11 min read

Using Docker to provide self-service database patching

I've been looking into how Vagrant and/or Docker can be used to improve the life of DBAs and maybe others, too. I did ...

by Maris Elsins

11 min read

Maris Elsins

Recent stories

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

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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?