Book Review: Fifty Years of Relational, and Other Database Writings

This is my review of "Fifty Years of Relational, and Other Database Writings" by C.J.Date.

Release V2.0 of Oracle-DB-Builds for 19C EE Installation

I have created release V2.0 for 19C EE database installation.

Release V1.0 of Oracle-DB-Builds for 18C XE Installation

I have created release V1.0 for 18C XE database installation.

Continuing Saga of Converting Google Classics Site

The saga of recovering my wiki from the forced conversion from Google Classic Sites continues.

Installed Ansible 2.9 Controller

I am really frustrated with Ansible 2.10. It just breaks too many of my existing scripts (especially running against Oracle Linux 7).

Quick Analysis of ORM Plans Comparison for VM CPU Pool of Six Cores

I have done some further analysis following “Analysis of XEN and VirtualBox Tests on ORM Plans“.

Book Review: Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

"Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems" is a follow-on from these books:

• "Systems Reliability Engineering" (SRE)
• "Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale"

2020 Missing Semester Course from MIT

The Missing Semester series of video lectures is very interesting and informative.

Analysis of XEN and VirtualBox Tests on ORM Plans

Following on my Preliminary Analysis of the Effect of ORM Plans on Throughput, I reproduced the performance tests on a XEN server VM instead of a VirtualBox VM.

Preliminary Analysis of the Effect of ORM Plans on Throughput

This is a summary of my experiment into whether the use of the Oracle Resource Manager (ORM) plan can improve throughput of an Oracle database until 100% CPU load.