My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.
Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine: Timely Thoughtful Thoughts For The Thinking Technologist – Part I
Managing REDO log performance
I have written before about managing database performance issues, and the topic is hot and alive as ever. Even with today’s fast processors, huge memory sizes and enormous bandwidth to storage and networks. warning: Rated TG (Technical Guidance required) for…
Application processing at lightning performance – The hourglass view of access times
Even in these modern times, when lots of things are changing in the ICT world, some lessons from the past still hold true. Previously, I discussed the I/O stack in a typical database environment. As virtualization has complicated things a…
Monkey Business
Maybe you have heard the story of the Monkey Experiment. It is about an experiment with a bunch of monkeys in a cage, a ladder, and a banana. At a certain point one of the monkeys sees the banana hanging…