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Oracle 2-Day DBA in x Days Post 8; Watching Oracle Background Processes In Post 6 we talked about Oracle parameters and how they effect the startup of an Oracle instance. This installment, ...

We are now starting to get into the meat of Oracle as Chapter 5 starts to look at what an Oracle database and instance really are. It amazes me that many DBAs think they are the same thing when in f...

Using Oracle Heterogeneous Services in an Operational Data Store or Data Warehouse By John Adolph Palinski I recently received a user request to bring information into the data warehouse for ...

Well like all propaganda, there are some items of truth in there, but mixed with many assumptions and biased conclusions to lend credibility to the whole. As an example of a biased conclusion, th...

A quick note on 4f -- the gain comes from a higher procedure cache hit rate for comparable queries following an initial query. The gain is proportional to the complexity of the SQL statements, give...

Some Oracle troll left this in the MS SQL Server newsgroup last night. Comments? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oracle versus MS Sqlserver 2000 --------------...

I work with SQL Server and Oracle and just inherited DB2. They all have their good and bad points. I'm just glad that I have the opportunity to learn each. I don't listen to much to the sales pitch...

I have to agree with you. This was a great article. I also want to say that our SQL Server servers are doing their job and are absolute solid work horses. Mark -----Original Message----- From...

Ian raised a very good point. Transactional data integrity is a VERY BIG deal, and I believe that's why you see much much more installations of Sybase (many are being converted to SQL) in the financi...

Hi, I bet you can find the same document from Microsoft explaining all it's advantages over Oracle. This is indeed a sales document and very subjective imho. This is the typical IT attitude: Li...

I don't want to get into the fight between MS and Oracle. But who are Faulkner and PorusHH? ' By Faulkner, Kent, USA Updated by PorusHH, Australia Version 3.5, January 2003' Version ...

cheez.... what can one say? I read about half (paragraphs 1 - 7), found no item I couldn't comment on if I'd had the time, but eventually gave up... The text is more or less pure crap IMNHO. ...

Checklist for Configuring Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on IBM AIX with SAN Storage Part 2 y Aniruddha Biswas [From the Editor: This is part 2 of the series of articles provi...

Oracle Easier to Administer Than Microsoft SQL Server? by Stephen Wynkoop and the SSWUG Community Note: this original "editorial" portion ran in the newsletter on May 11, 2004 . I'm biased....

Oracle 2-Day DBA in x Days Post 4; Getting Enterprise Manager (dbconsole) to work It is well to note here that chapter 3 or the d-Day DBA provides a brief roadmap (their words) to administer y...

The Morphing Role of DBAs and Developers by Stephen Wynkoop Recently I ran an editorial that asked about the roles of DBAs and developers.  I was specifically asking whether people were s...

Oracle 2-Day DBA in x Days Post 1 James Koopmann This is the first in a series of articles that I am committing to going through the Oracle documentation from cover to cover. I have decide...

Things Your Mother Never Mentioned About Setting Up an Oracle Database - Steps 3 to 5 By John Adolph Palinski Now that you have gone to class, down loaded the Oracle database software, ...

  Oracle 11g Software Installation on Linux—CentOS-5 Introduction The last article I wrote talked about installing Oracle Software. I thought it would be a good addi...

Things Your Mother Never Mentioned About Setting Up An Oracle Database - Steps 1 and 2 By John Adolph Palinski Now that you gone to class, down loaded the Oracle database, ex...