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Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for Solaris x86-64 Now Available
The Solaris x86-64 port of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 can now be downloaded from OTN. Get it while it’s hot!
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Introduction
At the 2009 Oracle OpenWorld Unconference back in October I lead a chalk and talk session entitled The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing. Since this was a chalk and talk I spared...
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Balanced...
[back to Introduction] If you want to build a house that will stand the test of time, you need to build on a solid foundation. The same goes for architecting computer systems that run databases. If the...
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Table Compression
[back to Introduction] Editor’s note: This blog post does not cover Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. The first thing that comes to most people’s mind when database table compression is mentioned is...
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Partitioning
[back to Introduction] Partitioning is an essential performance feature for an Oracle data warehouse because partition elimination (or partition pruning) generally results in the elimination of a...
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The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Parallel...
[back to Introduction] Leveraging Oracle’s Parallel Execution (PX) in your Oracle data warehouse is probably the most important feature/technology one can use to speed up operations on large data sets....
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Oracle Exadata and Netezza TwinFin Compared – An Engineer’s Analysis
There seems to be little debate that Oracle’s launch of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and the Sun Oracle Database Machine has created buzz in the database marketplace. Apparently there is so much...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Sessions By OakTable Members
As Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner and you are probably getting your session schedule together, I thought I’d pass on this (nearly complete) list of sessions of which one or more of the...
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11.2.0.3 Patch Set For Oracle Database Server
Just a quick post that the 11.2.0.3 patch set for Oracle Database Server has been released for x86 and x86-64 platforms (other ports will soon follow). The patchset number is 10404530 and is available...
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Counting Triangles Faster
A few weeks back one of the Vertica developers put up a blog post on counting triangles in an undirected graph with reciprocal edges. The author was comparing the size of the data and the elapsed times...
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