Archive for the ‘11gR1’ Category

Oracle 11g: Real-Time SQL Monitoring Using DBMS_SQLTUNE.REPORT_SQL_MONITOR

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Many times a DBA wants to know where a SQL statement is in its execution plan and where the time is being spent. There are a few ways to find out this information, but an 11g new feature makes gathering this information extremely easy. Oracle 11g Real-Time SQL Monitoring ...

What Are Your System Statistics?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I've been working on a few test cases and I'm in search of some real-world data. If your production Oracle database uses system statistics, either Workload Statistics or Noworkload Statistics, and you are willing to share them, please post a comment with the output from the following two ...

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) for HP-UX PA-RISC

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) was released for HP-UX PA-RISC today (11/21). Grab it from the Oracle Database Software Downloads on OTN.

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) for Windows x64, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) was released for Windows x64 on Friday (11/9) and on Solaris (SPARC 64-bit), AIX and HP-UX Itanium today (11/12). Grab it from the Oracle Database Software Downloads on OTN.

Oracle 11g: Extended Statistics

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

In the Real-World Performance Roundtable, Part 2: The Optimizer, Schema Statistics, SQL Tuning at Oracle OpenWorld 2006, I worked an example of how the optimizer can have difficulty estimating the correct cardinality when there is data correlation. (The Zodiac example can be found on pages 46-49 of the presentation.) ...

Oracle 11g: Enhancements to DBMS_STATS

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Many of you are aware of the Oracle 11g Database New Features and while some may be generally interested in new features, one area that I focus on is new features that yield gains in performance. Some of these features can be found in the General Server Performance section ...

Oracle Database 11g Launch Set For July 11

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Today Oracle announced that the Oracle Database 11g launch will take place in New York City on July 11th. I'm quite excited about what 11g will bring to the table and after the public release I'll be blogging about the features and options I feel yield added performance and ...