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Concurrent Processing in one of the most resources consuming Oracle e-Business Suite component. It is important to ensure a proper performance management of that components. Oracle Real Application Clusters provides Scalability and High Availability. Applications running on RAC should support certain configuration options to leverage RAC benefits. This blog posts describes possible concurrent processing configuration options and highlights EBS today's limitations. It provides a possible solution and explains what benefits it could introduce to organizations running both EBS and RAC today.

I am very excited and thrilled to use the latest release of MySQL 5.6 in production. This is probably the most notable and innovative release from many years, if not ever. During the last year, we had the chance to work with many new features and to test if fixes to old issues were working...

Posted the slides of Under The Hood of Oracle Clusterware 2.0: Grid Infrastructure (UTHOC2). Updated for Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

See Alex's white on Block Change Tracking Internals that's now published on My Oracle Support. Take a poll on Oracle BCT adoption. Learn about some unconventional uses of BCT such as incrementally updated standby. Get involved - share your experience.

DBD::Oracle version 1.57_00 is on its way to CPAN. This release is small, but should make some Win32 users happy: 1.57_00 (2013-02-07) BUG FIXES fix RT46628 – bind_param_inout ORA_RSET causes MSWin32 access violation and RT82663 – Errors if a returned SYS_REFCURSOR is not opened (Martin J. Evans) If a procedure/function returns a SYS_REFCURSOR which was...

If you are looking for some of the great blog posts of the week in database technologies like Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL, then Log Buffer #307 is the place to be. Enjoy. Oracle: When Jeremy Schneider writes, it stays written. He relishes and shares as how to troubleshoot OEM  12c Cloud Control Auto-Discovery. Chris...

OEM 12c Cloud Control looks daily for new targets, placing them in a queue for admin promotion to managed objects. Details and troubleshooting info follow.

It has been a whirlwind of activity at my very first time attending RMOUG. This show is one of the ultimate user group events I have attended. I am not going to say it’s the “best” since the shows I have attended over the years have always been great. Naturally the suite of volunteers at...

Want to reduce the possibility of making errors when managing a database? Hear Pythian founder Paul Vallee give an over view of Pythian's FIT-ACER check list and see how it helped Pythian reduce errors rate from 1/year of services delivered to 1/ 6.3 years of services delivered.

Bloggers are striving hard to up their game. They are writing, editing, formatting, trimming, enhancing their blogs to offer maximum value. This Log Bufer Edition #306 cherishes these efforts.

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to scan your code for all TODOs and FIXMEs and generate GitHub issues out of them? Well, I thought so too, so:

Thanks to virtualization and cheap, powerful hardware there are a lot of cost effective options available today for setting up a learning environment on your own. Early in my career these options didn’t exist. In fact back then, you were lucky if your employer had test hardware available for you to “play” with. All too...

Throughout my career, like most people, I’ve seen a number of HR programs that fall under the banner of employee wellness. As I approach a milestone birthday, and celebrate my 30th year in high tech, health and wellness have become more and more important to me. Age gives us the perspective to value our own...

Pythian now officially supports MongoDB both as On-Demand and Managed Services offerings. We’ve been dipping our toes into the MongoDB pool for some time now, as more and more of our customers adopt MongoDB into their data infrastructure, but now its official. Part of the decision to officially support MongoDB was driven by our desire...

The key to success for the database technologists is staying a step ahead of technology challenges and keep growing in order to efficiently scale to meet the needs of dynamic businesses and customers. Blogs are one way to remain abreast of technology trends and Log Buffer Edition this week once again helps database professionals in that regard in Log Buffer #305.

Most DBAs are probably aware of the cursor_sharing feature of the Oracle optimizer that replaces all literals in the where clause of a SQL statement by bind variables. This allows Oracle to calculate a Signature from the resulting SQL string that can be used for various tasks, for example, sharing “like” statement cursors, identifying corresponding...

Inspired by a T-shirt he got from Splunk, Alex shares his thoughts on Big Data, data storage and the changing landscape with emerging technologies like Hadoop.

As usual, the who's-who of the Oracle tech space will be assembling in Denver the week of February 11 for the Rock Mountain Oracle Users' Group. A plethora of Pythian employees with be speaking as will we also have a booth in the vendor hall. Please drop by and say "hi". See the full detail of who is presenting and when.

Just a silly article about a couple of instances recently where my colleague and I have both been duped by scheduled jobs. The feint and obvious lesson here is to be aware of your surroundings. I’m guilty of berating my 3 year old for spilling every glass of water she is handed because she’s unaware...