New Blogs, Index Storage, Performance, Storage
New Blogs
Richard Foote found a new Oracle-related blog, the Oracle Multimedia Blog. Great photo there. Something along the lines of 'Tony Soprano manages the DB'.
Scott Spendolini points us to a new APEX blog, from Jason Straub.
Index Storage
Ok, get ready for a major battle between the performance folks over this. Many authors of performance books maintain that storing indexes in larger block tablespaces will get you a performance boost. Richard Foote bursts that bubble, and backs it up. Expect a mild-to-medium roast flame war to arise on the subject.
Performance: Bind Peeking
The Pythian Group blog brings us a very useful article called Stabilize Oracle 10G’s Bind Peeking Behaviour by Cutting Histograms If you are experiencing unstable optimizer plans in 10g this is definitely worth investigating.
Storage: Flash
Flash memory, otherwise known as SSDs (Solid State Disks) have been in the wings for years. Large DB operators with massive transaction rates have used them (in spite of the heavy cost) to manage high demand spots in the system like redo logs. Everyone else has been conjecturing about how nice they would be to use if 'normal' companies could afford them. The Storage Mojo blog brings us an excellent summation of the situation now with a glance to the future.
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