Connor McDonald writes that It’s just bad code or bad design … most of the time for Oracle performance problems.
Why Choosing ANSI JOIN is an Operational Issue
From an operational perspective, I argue that the use of ANSI syntax for JOINs is superior to that of Oracle’s native syntax.
Slow Apply on Logical Standby due to SYS.AUD$
Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems
In Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central IT Departments (behind a pay-wall), Chua and Storey look at strategies for Central IT departments to handle the challenge of these new systems.
Exercise in Database Performance Modelling
I have spent the past year doing performance modelling of a new product that is being rolled progressively to clients. The most frustrating thing has the lack of meaningful feedback from the product support group. Everytime I raise a concern that the performance is not as expected, I get the platitude that the product is performing as expected.
Clock Drift Stops OMS Startup
I had an issue in which clock drift between the OMS and OMR caused the OMS to fail to start. Full details are here.
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
