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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 2 days ago
Announcement: Hotsos Symposium 2010!
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — Hotsos Symposium is considered by many to be one of the best Oracle-related educational events each year.... This is just a quick blog entry to direct attention to this year’s event. Tom Kyte will be this year’s Keynote and Tanel Poder is hosting Training Day 2010. The current list of speakers can ... (more) Announcement: Hotsos Symposium 2010!

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 6 days ago
Words About Oracle Direct NFS On Sun Storage 7410 And Chip Multithreading Technology (CMT) For ...
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — My old friend Glenn Fawcett and I have been teaming up on Sun Oracle Database Machine DW/BI/OLTP... performance engineering work, but last week Glenn told me he had an opportunity to put a late model Sun T5240 CMT system through the OLTP wringer. After consulting with me about workload options I ... (more) Words About Oracle Direct NFS On Sun Storage 7410 And ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 9 days ago
Linux Free Memory: Is It Free Or Reclaimable? Yes. When I want Free Memory, I Want Free Memory!
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — I have certain performance test harnesses that expect to have a lot of free memory. The test... harnesses produce a lot of output that facilitates my performance analysis. The output is in the form of text files and pipe-delimited files (to be used by SQL*Loader) and CSV files which I upload to ... (more) Linux Free Memory: Is It Free Or Reclaimable? Yes. When ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10 days ago
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Includes The Orion I/O Test Tool, But You Better Get That Full ...
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — As Miladin Modrakovic recently pointed out, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes, for the first time ever,... a copy of the ORacle IO Numbers (ORION) disk throughput test tool. The executable has been put into $ORACLE_HOME/bin. This is just a quick blog entry to point out that the executable does ... (more) Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Includes The Orion I/O ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 16 days ago
Sun Oracle Database Machine Video Demonstration…Again.
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This is just a quick blog entry to point out that the video I blogged about in... my recent post entitled Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle Database Machine is once again online. It had been pulled by the owner for some rough-edge editing. (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine Video Demonstration…Again.

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 21 days ago
Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing Hype? Part II.
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — In my recent post entitled Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing... Hype? Part I, I started a discussion about why this million IOPS-capable platform is interesting to Oracle deployments that don’t require quite (or nowhere near) that much I/O. Since I, ... (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine: The Million Oracle Database ...

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HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory?
kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 26 days ago
HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory?
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — Please forgive…I just can’t resist a tongue-in-cheek post after seeing this. According to this HP webpage for... the Proliant DL180 G5 , there is a new flavor of server and new flavor of Nehalem processor for that matter. As the following screen shot shows the G5 now supports 2 Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) ... (more) HP Proliant DL180 G5 With Nehalem EP and PC2-5300 DDR2 ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 27 days ago
Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle Database Machine
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — There is a nice, flashy video of the Open World 2009 Keynote area demo of a full-rack... Sun Oracle Database Machine based on Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server V2. The demo shows a graphical user interface that drives the queries and monitors throughput by sampling Oracle Database performance ... (more) Announcing a YouTube Video Demonstration of Sun Oracle ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/22/2009
Adding Morgan’s Library To My Blogroll
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This is just quick blog entry to point out that I’m adding Morgan’s Library to my blogroll.... Dan Morgan (Oracle ACE Director) maintains very helpful resources on the site. For instance, I recommend visiting the actual library itself. (more) Adding Morgan’s Library To My Blogroll

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/21/2009
Sun Oracle Database Machine. The Million Oracle Database IOPS Machine or Marketing Hype? – Part I
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This one goes out to the Not Million IOPS DBA. Several blog readers have emailed me to... ask why I have not been blogging about the 1 million IOPS capability of Sun Oracle Database Machine. My first inclination was to blog sarcastically that the reason is because Sun Oracle Database Machine is ... (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine. The Million Oracle Database ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/21/2009
Why I Don’t Link To Official Oracle Corporate Blogs
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — I recently realized I’ve failed to link to the official Oracle blog on data warehouse related topics.... For whatever reason I thought I did this some time back but have apparently been speed-reading my blogroll. Better late than never… I’m adding The Data Warehouse Insider to my blog roll. You ... (more) Why I Don’t Link To Official Oracle Corporate Blogs

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 10/16/2009
Why Doesn’t Oracle Offer Exadata Related Partner Programs?
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — …there is, in fact, a new Partner Program… This is just a quick blog entry to point... folks to what I think is a very important Oracle press release. On October 12, Oracle announced the creation of the Oracle Exadata Partner Program. While at Open World this week I spoke with a few of my friends ... (more) Why Doesn’t Oracle Offer Exadata Related Partner Programs?

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 9/24/2009
Sun Oracle Database Machine Cache Hierarchies and Capacities – Part 0.I
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — …goofy title I know…but, hey, the Roman numeral system had no zero. This is a pre-”Deep Dive... Series” post if you will. I see my colleague Jean-Pierre Dijcks has a blog entry covering the Sun Oracle Database Machine features. It is a good overview but I need to point out a minor ... (more) Sun Oracle Database Machine Cache Hierarchies and ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 9/23/2009
Announcement: Fresh Oracle White Paper Covering Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database ...
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — I’ve been getting quite a few emails from folks asking why I haven’t been posting content about... Sun Oracle Database Machine. One such reader asked: You guys must not actually have any real proof of this stuff or else you would be blogging for sure I’m up to my neck in Sun Oracle Database Machine ... (more) Announcement: Fresh Oracle White Paper Covering Sun ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 9/23/2009
New Addition To My Blogroll: James Morle.
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — OakTable Network co-founder and very old friend of mine, James Morle, has started a blog. I harbor... a great deal of respect for James and am looking forward to his posts. You can find his blog at the following link: jamesmorle.wordpress.com I should also point out that James wrote a very, very ... (more) New Addition To My Blogroll: James Morle.

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