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Quick Setup To Monitor/Detect percieved Slowness…Or…”Put Some MDMA In The Database..”

Posted on 27/11/2017 by GemsOfProgramming

At some time every DBA has to deal with the dreaded “The database is slow, FIX IT!” issue. To be honest? I’m not the master of tuners, and surely I’m not dealing with these things on a day-to-day basis. Oracle … Continue reading →

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expdp…so sloooooowwww..???…Time to spice it up!

Posted on 13/02/2013 by GemsOfProgramming

At times when I do an export (expdp) from a database, the export just seems to last for ages…and then some.. While I was waiting one time for the export to finish, I found out the expdp in Oracle 11g … Continue reading →

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Oracle expdp … Export and then some…

Posted on 13/02/2013 by GemsOfProgramming

The other day…no, not that day, the OTHER day, I got a call if it was possible to restore some tables from a database backup. This was no issue, until I saw the list of tables that where needed.. Table_a10.. … Continue reading →

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