About
My name is Greg Rahn and I am a database performance engineer in the Real-World Performance group at Oracle Corporation. I joined the Real-World Performance group in 2004 and have been working with Oracle databases since 1997. As the name might suggest, the Real-World Performance group deals with database performance and scalability issues that come from the real world – the customer’s world. My goal with this blog is to communicate how I have worked through some of the performance challenges that I’ve encountered as well as discuss performance and scalability topics that may benefit others in the Oracle user community.
[...] by David Aldridge on 2008-04-13 Greg Rahn has an excellent entry on statistics gathering and the use and abuse of dbms_stats and [...]
Thanks to google I spotted the email string on collectl and as its author just wanted to say it’s always good to hear from people who have found it useful. I saw one comment from someone who mentioned collect for Tru64 and for those who haven’t guessed, the ‘l’ is in collectl because I view it as ‘collect for linux’.
-mark