More Papers By Tim Gorman and Jeff Maresh
April 29th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
One
or two of you might be wondering how I’ve managed to find the time to write so
many articles recently, and the answer to this is down to something you
might have read about
a few weeks ago where our local train service is trialling wireless
broadband internet access on the Brighton to London train each morning. I’ve
been travelling up quite a bit recently and if you get there early (it’s only on
the first three carriages) you can connect up for free for the hour’s journey.
Rather than just sit looking out of the window it’s been a chance to catch up
with email and do a bit of product evaluation. The fact the wireless connection
actually works is a bit of a surprise given the fact that the
trains often themselves
don’t work, but whilst it’s free it’s a pretty good service and makes the
hour’s journey go quite quickly.
Anyway, I’ve been meaning to post a link to this site
for a while. The other week
I mentioned an article
by Jeff Maresh on Supercharging Star Transformations and I also bookmarked at
the time the author’s other paper on
Materialized
Views In Action. If you take a look though at the site that Jeff’s papers
are hosted on though, the Evergreen
Database Technologies Downloadable Library, there’s a whole host of papers
and presentations that would be of interest to DBAs and DW developers, including
ones by Tim Gorman on
Partitioning in
Oracle Data Warehouses and
Tuning PL/SQL using the
DBMS_PROFILER,
Oracle 9i Table Compression and
Optimizing Parallel Query in Oracle 8i (recommended
by Doug Burns in his Tuning
Parallel Execution paper) and others by Jeff Maresh on
Tuning Sort and
Hash Memory Areas,
SQL*Loader Strategies for DW Implementations and
Understanding Locking in Oracle.
All good stuff and well worth a read (especially if you’re going to up London on
the train).
May 6th, 2005 at 6:29 pm
That’s a pretty good photo of the wireless access in use. I bet it’s really like that, eh? Two laptops per table, plenty of room
My own memories of commuting were from Bruce Grove to Liverpool Street, then on the Central Line to Holborn. Yuk.
I just got myself a palm Tungsten C — the wireless access is great, and it takes me literally five seconds to pick it up, connect, see if i have new emails, and close it down again. I can also browse the internet in front of the TV so I don’t piss off SWMBO by disappearing off to the “office” in the evening. I don’t know if I would have had the room to use it on the train though.
May 7th, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Hi David,
If you get on at Brighton, it’s like that until … Preston Park. Still, not bad for a freebie, and if you can get a seat (with a table) you can at least catch up with the various Oracle blogs on the way to work.
So I guess you’re originally from the UK? How’s life over in the USA? How did you end up there?
regards
Mark
May 10th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Oh, I married into American/Italian family — she’s an ossifer in the USAF so I follow her around. “Like a bad smell”, as she said yesterday.
Nice!