Gerald Venzl

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager

Oracle has released an Enterprise Manager Plug-In for AWS. This Plug-In enables you to monitor and troubleshoot your cloud-based databases […]

Oracle has ported DTrace for Oracle Linux. DTrace is a very powerful performance analysis and troubleshooting tool that allows you

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In the last post of my “Loading data fast” series I showed how DML error logging can be used to

In the last post of my series “Loading data fast” I showed how batch inserts can actually make a huge

It’s been a long time since my last post on this blog and there were very good reasons for this.

In my last post I talked about how persisting data can become the bottleneck on large high scale systems nowadays.

Today more and more applications have the requirement to load data fast. While this requirement isn’t new in IT, nowadays

Today I was part of a NYOUG seminar about “Indexing Strategies” held by Mr. Jonathan Lewis himself. If somebody doesn’t

I’m currently in Menlo Park, California at the old Sun lab from Oracle and do some Exadata testing for work.

What happens if you forget to move our redo logs to a fast disk? Well you will see something like

Oracle provides a powerful out of the box tool called LogMiner within the Oracle database. LogMiner enables you to query