A lot of database professionals seem to agree that the DBA acronym stands for “Default Blame Accepter”. Indeed, I’d be lying if I said that I’ve never felt that way. But I believe that a more in-depth look into why the DBA team always seems to be at the center
Remember that day you were sitting at a friendly bash$ prompt and discovered tab completion? It was like a choir of angels came down from the heavens and sang Hallelujah, the Shell Hath Come (yes, that’s a bourne again reference). While these 5 tips may not be that monumental, they
If you’re a DBA on Enterprise Edition with the Diagnostics Pack and you don’t use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports, you are seriously missing out. AWR is the holy grail of snapshot-based metrics at the instance level. There are a ton of resources out there covering AWR, so I
Here’s one for the “neato” category. This weekend I decided to try making a filesystem with FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), a package which allows mountable filesystems to be customized and modified with a source other than disk. The data can come from anywhere, and it will take the traditional appearance
I noticed yesterday that I was still getting hits for my Oracle Ace comics, but since the site for them is long gone viewers were justing getting errors. So I’ve brought them here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! And yes, I’m a big xkcd fan. I’m also aware that my
I’m sure we’ve all dabbled with VMs a time or two (and if you haven’t, you should). However, I had a specific goal of creating a robust purely virtual environment for training, labs, and testing. While a plain old Linux VM loaded over Windows, Linux, or Mac would have been
Recently I posted that I was teaching a class in Switzerland. I’m home now in good ol’ Virginia, over the jet lag and ready to blog. Class went very well. I taught the Burleson Consulting 3 day Oracle RAC course, one of our most popular courses which I am called
In the Steve Karam Philosophy, every DBA deserves a few things: Access to Metalink Loads of good coffee At least two computers A yearly cruise on which they can learn Oracle There’s only one thing better than an Oracle class, and that’s an Oracle class taught by top notch instructors
