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Oracle Upgrades are “A Lot Easier!” What About All Those Patches?

Larry Dignan wrote a blog entry about the ease of Oracle upgrades where he quotes Charles Phillips as saying: The upgrading experience has gotten a lot easier. It may not be as daunting as you’re thinking five years ago. In his blog entry he is asking for email from folks with their stories of recent “upgrade nirvana” [...]

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Wishing Your Competitors Well. Isilon (ISLN) IPO. No Techno-Religion on This Blog!

Kudos to Competition In my recent post about AMD’s Barcelona quad-core processor, scheduled for release in 2007, I mentioned that I found an interesting blog and recommended you check it out. I have just received my 4th email detailing the reasons I shouldn’t have recommended that blog. Folks, I said it was “interesting” and recommended you [...]

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AMD Quad-core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part II)

I am a huge AMD fan, but I am now giving up my hopes of finding any substantial information that could be used to predict what Oracle performance might be like on next year’s Barcelona (a.k.a. K8L) quad-core processor. I did, however, find another interesting blog while trolling for information on this topic. I [...]

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Partition, or Real Application Clusters Will Not Work.

OK, that was a come-on title. I’ll admit it straight away. You might find this post interesting nonetheless. Some time back, Christo Kutrovsky made a blog entry on the Pythian site about buffer cache analysis for RAC. I meant to blog about the post, but never got around to it—until today. Christo’s entry consisted of some [...]

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