Bryan's Oracle Blog

I don't know how many times I find myself trying to tune a query, and going through the same tasks. I run the sql in my session (most...

Well, I think I'm a little late to the party..   I know Greg Rahn did a great post on utilizing R to visual your ash data.  I figur...

I am part of the O-Really Blogger review program, and long, long ago I picked up the book "Cooking for Geeks" by Jeff Potter  f...

I have been doing some benchmarks on a couple of different systems for LIO's. I have been using Kevin Closson's great SLOB toolk...

Last Thursday the Real World Performance Tour came to Rochester, NY. I know what you're probably thinking. One of 2 things. 1) Why ...

Actually, this isn't exadata specific, but it becomes even more important on a multi-node cluster. First the background.   I have a...

I am working on loading a large dataset (about 500 Million rows that take up about 100g of space). I am loading them into a partitioned ...