performance – Learning is not a spectator sport

Parallel DML and locking – going manual

Generally speaking, if you have a giant chunk of data over “here”, and you need to load it into a

Glance through any text book, blog post, video tutorial etc on the topic of database indexes and you’ll typically chance

The Oracle documentation set is my bread and butter for day to day work. With AskTom questions, StackOverflow question, Einstein

One of the most common recommendations I’ll make to customers who post questions on AskTom is “Install APEX even if

Just a quick post today to inspire you to look further than the standard options for performance monitoring. Quiz most

Every database has indexes…but should they? In this episode, lets consider a different proposition. What if the indexes you have

I’m a big fan of giving developers the tools they need to tune their applications in Production if that is

Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) performance tuning problem you’ll find spanning decades of blog posts when it comes to

In a world where databases are now the norm, whereas distributing data via a CSV file used to be commonplace,

The other day as my PC popped up its usual “Hey, you really should look at buying a bigger disk”