Bryan's Oracle Blog

It's been a while since I've written a post, but twice this week, the same issue came up.. The story goes like this.. "I hav...

I am writing an editorial (which is unusual for me). This was caused by a conversation I had with my Dad about how the world is changing wi...

I have included some usefule ODI monitoring scripts (if you want the abridged version of this blog post). I haven't been blogging in ...

Well,   Here is the issue I've been dealing with.  The query cost doesn't stay consistent, and I was wondering if a profile woul...

I decided to write this blog entry because we ran into an issue over the weekend.  The process that normally runs fine, was running slow.. ...

Well I figured I document some of the magic numbers that the optimizer uses to help remember them, and help others. The back ground of this...

OK, Now I new Exadata coming in that has 3tb drives, and the first question asked is .. How much disk to I have to configure on it ?  Well ...