Gerald Venzl

DTrace is now also available for Oracle Linux

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

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted

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.