Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

"Oracle Database Performance Management", Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha : "Oracle Performance management can be classified into 2 types – proactive and reactive. Proactive performance management involves designing and developing the performance architecture for a system, during the early stages of an implementation. This involves hardware selection, performance & capacity planning, mass storage system selection, I-O sub-system [...]

One of the more interesting features coming with Microsoft ‘Longhorn’ is Microsoft Shell, a.k.a. ‘MSH’ or by its codename ‘Monad’. Monad is a Unix-like command shell for Longhorn that aims to be as interactive as KSH or BASH, as programmable as Ruby or Perl, but with an object orientated base in Microsoft .NET. This blog [...]

Looking to find out what new features are included in the 10g (9.0.4) release of Oracle Application Server? This Oracle white paper details the new features in AS10g (9.0.4), and has a section at the end on additional features in the 9.0.4.1 patchset (patch #3784229 on metalink, currently available for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux [...]

The New York Times: "May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take him around back and shoot him? That’s how the chief executive of PeopleSoft, Craig Conway, described Oracle’s hostile bid for his company, which Oracle intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software. Oracle’s takeover tale has [...]

This isn’t one I’ve come across before. "Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning" by Kirtikumar Deshpande and K. Gopalakrishnan is described by Amazon as "Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface [...]