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SQL Gone Bad – But Plan Not Changed?

Last week an interesting issue popped up on a mission critical production app (MCPA). A statement that was run as part of a nightly batch process ran long. In fact, the statement never finished and the job had to be killed and restarted. This particular system is prone to plan stability issues due to various [...]

Extreme Exadata Expo Speakers Announced

Thanks to everyone that submitted abstracts for our upcoming E4 conference. Unfortunately, there were more quality submissions than we had room for. Maybe next year we should expand the event to 3 days. :) But in the meantime, we have assembled what I believe is an excellent line up of speakers. I’ll just mention a few [...]

E4 2013 – Exadata Conference Call for Papers Closing

  Just a quick note to remind you that the call for papers for E4 is closing in a few days (on April 30).  So if you have anything you think is interesting related to Exadata that you’d like to share we’d love to hear from you. By the way, you don’t have to be [...]

Bad Advice?

I got an email a few days ago . . . Subject: Exadata / your blogs / you aren’t saying to put HINTS on everything, Are you… . . . A peer of mine found a couple of your blogs listed below which discuss Profiles and Hints. The position he is inferring upon you is [...]

New Exadata Prototype

I got a look a new prototype for the next generation Exadata last week while doing some work with a company in Europe. Apparently there is a big push to be environmentally friendly there now and so Oracle is trying to come up with a model that uses less power and is biodegradable. The word [...]