Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Podcasts, Optimizer, PeopleSoft, APEX, DBFS, Index Performance, Performance, EBS, Charity


Oracle Podcasts

It's three AM. You can't sleep. You need to do something useful that will also help you sleep. Subscribe to Oracle podcasts!

http://www.oracle.com/database/podcasts.html

Just kidding. There are a lot of really good podcasts listed here, including some by suchleading lights of our technical realm as Tom Kyte.

Optimizer: Moving from 9i to 11g

A lot of production systems are moving to 11g and one of the key factors, particularly when moving from older versions of the RDBMS, is changes in optimizer behavior. The Inside the Oracle Optimizer blog has an excellent posting on the subject.

PeopleSoft

This posting at the The PeopleSoft DBA Blog is on an aspect of SQL tuning of particular interest to PeopleSoft DBAS: Hinting Sub-Queries on Oracle.

APEX

David Peake lets us know that APEX 4.0 early adopter is now available.

And Joel Kallman has a few notes on the new release for us at his blog here.

DBFS

Kevin Closson is embarking on a series of postings about the 11g feature DBFS, starting with The Oracle Database File System (DBFS). It’s Not An “Exadata Feature.” – Part I.

Index Performance

Some fine points of index statistics over at the Striving for Optimal Performance blog, particularly interesting if you are using partitioning.

Performance

From the specific to the general, Tanel Poder has some thoughts on a posting from Cary Milsap we linked to previously here at the Infogram.

Continuing the performance vibe, Alejandro Vargas has some scripts for assessing IO for us here.

And one last performance article, this time on data warehouses over at the Structured Data blog: The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Balanced Hardware Configuration.

EBS

This week at the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog:


Charity

Each year at the holiday season I bring my favorite charity to my readers' attention. This year that charity got an incredible boost from CNN. After CNN ran an article on Modest Needs the charity got a flood of contributions. With the economy what it is, more money is going to be needed and appreciated. You can give once or set up a monthly contribution, and Modest Needs is often able to double, sometimes even triple that donation through matching grants. Please have a look!
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