Gerald on IT

Loading data fast – regular insert vs. bulk insert

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

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary

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I spent the last couple of days with coding a new registration module for a private website that I administrate.

Over 1 and a half year ago I posted the enqueue waits for Oracle 10g. Well, a lot has changed

Today my boss asked me if I know how to fix the search engine for FireFox for AskTom.oracle.com since Tom

TimesTen gets usually deployed in the Middle Tier – same location where the application runs TimesTen is persistent and can