Tre af verdens førende Oracle performance guruer er på verdensturné, og de kommer til Danmark 23. marts! Tom Kyte, Graham Wood og Andrew Holdsworth arbejder alle i Oracle Real-Word Performance Group The Real-World Performance (RWP) Group is part of the Oracle Database Development organization. Engineers in the RWP group focus on … [Read more...]
Oracle RAT – an easy way of proving how performance will be after an upgrade/change
An often overlooked feature of Oracle is Real Application Testing, called RAT. RAT is by far the best way of testing the impact of changes to the database (not applications). This can be anything from upgrading to new hardware, upgrading the database release, adjusting database parameters, creating new optimizer statistics, adding indexes, … [Read more...]
Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service. At Blue Gecko, we occasionally help our customers design and implement S3-based backup strategies. Compared to conventional off site tape vaulting services, the advantages of vaulting database and other backups to S3 are many. … [Read more...]