It’s inevitable that at some time failures will occur in a database, particularly when the database has issues with self-reporting of faults. DBAs often lack the necessary time, knowledge, and/or skills to resolve an outage. For this reason, Oracle has introduced the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) in Oracle Database 11g. Jeremiah Wilton … [Read more...]
New whitepaper: A look at Real Application Testing from a customer’s perspective
Mostly resulting from optimizer changes, version upgrade instability has resulted in widespread reluctance by Oracle customers to adopt new versions in a timely manner. Real Application Testing provides the greatest benefit to customers of all the new features in 11g. The importance of Real Application Testing to customers is so great primarily … [Read more...]