Mark Rittman

"Oracle Database Performance Management" [http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/dba/archives/oracle_perf.pdf], 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

The New York Times: [http://news.com.com/The+new+Silicon+Valley+A+dog-eat-dog+world/2100-1012_3-5382899.html] "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&

Looking to find out what new features are included in the 10g (9.0.4) release ofOracle Application Server [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/index.html]?This Oracle white paper [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/pdf/overview_9041_new_features.pdf] details the new

Installation Guide: Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86 [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_10gdb_install.html]: "This is the first in a series of guides that provide all the steps for installing the major components of Oracle 10g software on Linux. All three of the certified

[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/007222729X/markrittmansh-21/026-3961103-0724440] This isn't one I've come across before."Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning" [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/007222729X/markrittmansh-21/026-3961103-0724440] by Kirtikumar Deshpande and

Pete Finnigan, famous for hisexcellent Oracle security white papers [http://www.petefinnigan.com/orasec.htm] and alerts [http://www.petefinnigan.com/alerts.htm], has started a new Oracle security weblog [http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/entries/index.html]. So far there's been some useful and interesting postings ontruncating

Back in July I wrote an article aboutOracle Information Architecture [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000973.html], Oracle's new BI-centric vision of an integrated organisation that brings together new products and technologies such as Applications 11i, Customer Data Hub, Grid Computing and Service-Orientated Architecture. If this is of

A good discussion on comp.databases.oracle.server on thereal-world value of the new features in Oracle 9i and 10g [http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&[email protected]&prev=/groups?q=comp.

I came across another interesting blog the other day.The ETL Guy [http://etlguy.com/] has only a few postings so far but looks promising, with amongst others some interesting articles onModelling Objects in a Relational DBMS [http://etlguy.com/page/43],Hardware Sizing [http://etlguy.com/page/42],Normalize

Dispelling Oracle myths seems to be a regular theme at the moment, andSteven Feuerstein [http://www.stevenfeuerstein.com/] dispels a few PL/SQL coding myths himself in a new article for Oracle Magazine called"Controlling Mythological Code" [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-sep/o54plsql.html]. According

I came across this interesting presentation by Rachel Carmichael given at a recent New York Oracle User Group, entitled"How Not To Be A DBA - The Top Twenty Mistakes" [http://www.nyoug.org/200212carmichael.pdf]. It's a light-hearted look at what *not* to do when

If you're in the UK and Ireland and interested in Oracle tuning, you'll be interested to know that Cary Millsap and Gary Goodman are presenting at thenext UKOUG UNIX SIG meeting [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_events.jsp?year=2004&month=09&day=

If you followed the recent colourful debates oncomp.databases.oracle.server [http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&group=comp.databases.oracle.server] ontuning using ratios vs. tuning using extended trace [http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&

The other week I was working for a client who was putting together a type 2 slowly changing dimension (a.k.a. 'SCD2') to hold details of their customers. A customer could (for example) move over time, and the type 2 dimension tracked all changes to their postcode

GMAILFS - GMail Filesystem [http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html]: "GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with

Analytic Functions In Oracle Warehouse Builder [http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/products/warehouse/files/analyticfunctions.pdf] : "Analytic Functions are an important feature of the Oracle database that allows the users to enhance SQL's analytical processing capabilities. These functions enable the user to calculate rankings and

"BI on the Linux platform picked up even more traction last week as a trio of BI vendors announced product support for the open source operating system."writes Stephen Swoyer [http://esj.com/business_intelligence/article.asp?id=7193&t=y] for Enterprise Systems. "Cognos Inc.

I've had to block all new comments on this site, because of a huge increase in comment spam over the last few days. I've got the MT Blacklist plugin installed, but it only stops comment spam that's been previously reported, not the new ones

DatabaseJournal.com: [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3391601] "For most DBAs, not only is there Oracle database administration to deal with, but there are Oracle administration issues as well. What do I mean by "Oracle administration?" Depending on your role within your company, "

Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control for Windows is nowavailable for download from OTN [http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oem/index.html]. [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/pdf/WP_GENERAL_10g.pdf] Enterprise Manager Grid Control is a browser-based version of Oracle Enterprise Manager, with administrators logging

Sergio Leunissenlets us know [http://www.orablogs.com/sergio/archives/000443.html]that theHTML DB Installation FAQ [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/htmldb/install_faq.html] has just been updated on OTN.

In my latest article for DBAZine.com, entitled"A Look Into The Future Of Microsoft And Oracle OLAP" [http://www.dbazine.com/rittman4.shtml], I take a look forward to some of the features planned for Oracle 10g OLAP and Microsoft Analysis Services 2005. For Microsoft, the emphasis

Red Rock Consulting have put together a number ofwhite papers on Oracle e-Business Suite [http://www.redrock.net.au/rrarticles.htm], including a useful one on thereporting tools available for e-Business Suite 11i [http://www.redrock.net.au/articles/11iReportingOAUGWhitePaper.pdf]. The paper focuses on those reporting tools that are

[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590593871/markrittmansh-21/026-7358782-2852464] Imentioned that other week [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001001.html] that I was taking a few weeks break from the blog, and one of the reasons I wanted to do this was to catch up on a bit

> [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590593871/markrittmansh-21/026-7358782-2852464] "The history of Oracle performance analysis looks a lot like the history of humanity