Category Archives: 10g New Features

End To End Metrics: A bridge between the developer and the DBA

First time I heard about end-to-end metrics was in a presentation given by Cary Millsap. The name of the presentation was “Thinking Clearly About Performance”. The presentation was great. One of the quotes that I really enjoyed was “Performance does not happen by accident! It’s a feature.”. One of the main topics in the presentation […]

Article: Faster Batch Processing and Logging by Mark rittman

I just read this article about efficient error handling when running batch jobs. This is somethink many DBAs and developers should put on their mind, and consider using next time they’re planning to do dataloads or batch jobs.