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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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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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Six alternatives to replace licensed Oracle database options

Bart Sjerps 2017-07-11 Oracle 6 Comments

More and more I hear companies looking into replacing expensive licensed database options with more cost-effective alternatives, for various reasons: simple cost reduction, or avoiding lock-in, or because of other strategic considerations. In order to kickstart the creative thinking, here…

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The IOPS race is over

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-08 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Infrastructure has always been a tough place to compete in. Unlike applications, databases or middleware, infrastructure components are fairly easy to replace with another make and model, and thus the vendors try to show off their product as better than…

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Baking a cake: trading CPU for IO?

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 4 Comments

Sometimes I hear people claim that by using faster storage, you can save on database licenses. True or false? The idea is that many database servers are suffering from IO wait – which actually means that the processors are waiting…

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