Jeremiah Wilton’s presentation shows how to use Oracle 11g Real Application Testing to quantify effect of system and database configuration changes. As an example, he uses Real Application Testing to validate the Automatic Advisor recommendations, and uncovers some interesting results. Check out the presentation on our whitepaper page. … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko Announces Free Oracle Database Performance Reviews
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2009) - Seattle-based remote DBA services company Blue Gecko, Inc. (http://www.bluegecko.dk), is now offering free performance evaluations. The promotion will extend through 6/30/2009. Blue Gecko President Chuck Edwards cited the importance of keeping databases in tune, especially now that so many people are … [Read more...]
Managing databases and other stuff
Databases exist to store data. That said, a database is infrequently useful entirely on it's own. So, managing databases means that we're often interacting with applications that access that data. Some of the common applications that we work with include Oracle E-Business Suite, Tomcat, Apache and ColdFusion. We had an entertaining problem … [Read more...]