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Questions & Answers to replatforming webcast

Bart Sjerps 2017-02-13 FAQ, Oracle, Virtualization No Comments

A list of questions being asked to my most recent webcast on Oracle replatforming together with Madora Consulting. I decided to put the Q&A on the blog so anyone can benefit instead of just the 100+ attendees we had on…

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Oracle snapshots and clones with ZFS

Bart Sjerps 2012-08-29 FAQ, Oracle, Performance 6 Comments

Another Frequently Asked Question: Is there any disadvantage for a customer in using Oracle/SUN ZFS appliances to create database/application snapshots in comparison with EMC’s cloning/snapshot offerings? Oracle marketing is pushing materials where they promote the ZFS storage appliance as the…

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Duplexing Oracle Redo logs?

Bart Sjerps 2011-03-23 FAQ, Oracle, Performance No Comments

A customer asked me recently what EMC’s advice is regarding duplexing Oracle redo logs. There is a thought behind this – Oracle redo logs are sensitive to data corruption – if redo logs are corrupt, there is no way to…

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Pinpointing I/O bottlenecks on Linux

Bart Sjerps 2011-03-04 FAQ, Oracle, Performance 48 Comments

Does this story sound familiar? The end users of a database application start complaining about poor system response and long running batch jobs. The DBA team starts investigating the problem. DBA’s look at their database tools such as Enterprise Manager,…

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How to set disk alignment in Linux

Bart Sjerps 2011-02-22 FAQ, Oracle, Performance 27 Comments

As you might know, if disk partitions containing Oracle datafiles are not aligned with the underlying storage system, then some I/O’s can suffer from some overhead as they are effectively translated in two I/O’s. If you want more info, google…

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