Oracle Scratchpad

December 28, 2006

Missing the Point

Filed under: Infrastructure, Performance — Jonathan Lewis @ 8:32 pm UTC Dec 28,2006

One of the little features of WordPress is that you can see where incoming readers came from (their search criteria, or a site that redirected them). Yesterday I was quite interested to see a few viewers coming in from a Burleson article which referenced a page I had written about getting some help from statspack for a recent trouble-shooting exercise.

Naturally I had to see what Burleson had to say – unsurprisingly he was fairly selective in what he said, picking the bits that best suited the purpose of advertising one of his books, and closing with an advert for a website that he has helped develop and which he claims to be an “expert system” to help you learn how to spot system-wide performance problems.  (Funnily enough I was planning to use the example from that site in a future post to explain how not to read a statspack report.)

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Parallel Execution

Filed under: Infrastructure, Parallel Execution, Partitioning, Performance — Jonathan Lewis @ 7:21 pm UTC Dec 28,2006

Looking back at some of my previous posts I was reminded how easy it is to overlook one important feature when trying to comment on another.  In particular, in this case, a short posting on indexed access paths omitted any mention of parallel execution until a comment from David Aldridge jogged my memory. So here’s an important thought about parallel execution.

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