21 Aug
Oracle Database 11g Automatic Memory Management
Our OakTable Wunderkind, Tanel Poder, has started blogging about Oracle Database 11g Automatic Memory Management. Do pay his site a visit! In fact, his site is worth a regular visit.
Archive for August 21st, 2007
21 Aug
Multi-Core Processors? Lots, and Lots of Cores!
One of my fellow OakTable Network members sent me email about this these guys today. I had never heard of them. But then I’m no sleuth since I didn’t hear about PANTA Systems until they audited a very nice Infiniband-enabled TPC-H last year. I’m talking about TILERA. Today TILERA announced a 64-core x86 compatible processor. […]
21 Aug
10.2.0.3 revisited…
been faffing around with a 10.2.0.3 upgrade in one of our test boxes.
Eventually gave up on it: got to get this box out to the testers and I don’t have time to debug a perl script that wasn’t finished after 5 hours of solid running!
And then mr oracle complains when I tell them they should get their act together before flights of fancy on new releases!
If nothing else, at the very least the
21 Aug
Over-Configuring DBWR Processes - Part IV
In Part II of this small series of blog entries on DBWR, a reader made note of the fact that the test I was using suffered log file switch (checkpoint incomplete) wait events and wanted an explanation as to why those were happening. I’d like to answer that and cover a couple of mistakes I […]