You are looking at a new feature for the Confio Support site, one that is intended to benefit not just our Ignite using customers, but also other DBAs looking for fresh perspectives on best practice for database performance.
One of the strongest connections over the years here at Confio has been the performance insight that our internal DBAs have developed with customers while assisting them with use of Ignite. Users are always asking our opinion on performance topics, and we created this blog as a forum for the Confio team to share their knowledge and experience with the larger community. On a regular basis, we will be posting case studies and specific tips on database performance topics. My favorites, of course, are the detailed success stories around use of Ignite.
One of the nicest things about Confio is that our customers know our DBA team personally, including Janis Griffin, Dean Richards, Mark Martin and Matt Larson, all of whom will be regular bloggers on this site.
The blog is open to all. Confio supported customers with a validated login can also post questions and comments which will appear immediately. Once we get going, we'll look to have guest bloggers from our user base as well. If you have any general comments or suggestions, send them to info@confio.com. Thanks for reading - I look forward to seeing this forum develop. Now enough of this, and on to real content!
Don Bergal, Chief Operating Officer, Confio Software
Problem
Some customers have experienced problems with the new Ignite Top Plans feature. The symptoms of the problems are errors in the Ignite error log similar to:
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(This guest blog entry contributed by James Koopmann of Pinehorse, Inc., a well known database performance consultant, trainer and speaker, and a friend of Confio.)
Extracting and loading data from...
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Recently, I had the priviledge of speaking at several SQL Saturday events. For those of you who don't know of this event, SQL Saturday is a FREE day of training for SQL Server...
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Confio has made a name for itself and developed thousands of dedicated users based on the concept of measuring database wait time. The Igniter Suite and our web site is full of references to...
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This discussion of an Oracle Wait Event comes from James Koopmann of Pinehorse, Inc., an Oracle expert consultant and friend of Confio.
Understanding Oracle Wait Events is important in diagnosing...
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Performance Improvements with 11g Data Type
Numeric operations in Oracle are a great opportunity for performance improvement. Oracle 11g provides a new data type that will reduce some of the...
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Row Cache Lock Wait
Definition
In order for DDL to execute, it must acquire a row cache lock to lock the Data Dictionary information. The shared pool contains a cache of rows...
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One of the best things about Confio Software is the absolute enthusiasm that our customers have for both tour people and product we provide. Here is an (unedited) submission on what a DBA in...
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I am setting up an Oracle 11g database environment on CentOS linux and ran into the following error from the runInstaller script:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:...
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