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MEA: Defining Capacity and Performance Metrics

Bart Sjerps 2021-11-15 MEA, Oracle, Performance No Comments

In the previous post, we discussed the current state of many existing Oracle environments. Now we need a method to accurately measure or define the workload characteristics of a given database platform. In our customer engagements we frequently ask details…

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What was the name of that SQL script again? SQLWrap to the rescue!

Bart Sjerps 2019-03-18 Oracle No Comments

If you are a frequent user of Oracle SQL*Plus, you probably also know about a tool called rlwrap. Bare SQL*Plus does not offer command history, arrow-key editing or any type of word completion so it feels like you’re thrown back…

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Announcing qdda 2.0

Bart Sjerps 2018-05-14 Innovation, Oracle, Performance 1 Comment

It’s almost a year since I blogged about qdda (the Quick & Dirty Dedupe Analyzer). qdda is a tool that lets you scan any Linux disk or file (or multiple disks) and predicts potential thin, dedupe and compression savings if…

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The Quick and Dirty Dedupe Analyzer – Part 1 – Hands on

Bart Sjerps 2017-05-17 Series 2 Comments

As announced in my last blogpost, qdda is a tool that analyzes potential storage savings by scanning data and giving a deduplication, compression and thin provisioning estimate. The results are an indication whether a modern All-Flash Array (AFA) like Dell…

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Featherweight Linux VNC services

Bart Sjerps 2014-07-02 General 2 Comments

This article describes how to set up a very lightweight VNC service under CentOS/Red Hat. Intro In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and derivates, I use CentOS) you can run a VNC service to allow graphical connections to a linux system.…

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