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		<title>R12.2 online patching – What are the hidden costs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at the Pythian blog. If you &#8216;d like to leave a comment, please comment on the original post here. One of the hot topics at the UKOUG 2011 Technology and E-Business Suite Conference last December was the upcoming release of Oracle e-Business Suite R12.2. The new release will bring us lots of new features, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=557&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School: Elementary Physics for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at the Pythian blog. If you &#8216;d like to leave a comment, please comment on the original post here. “Hello World!” I guess that’s the most appropriate way to start my 1st blog post under pythian.com domain. I’m going to start slow, but hopefully will pick up speed and have at least couple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=546&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>xx_perf_watcher for monitoring waits during short time intervals</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/xx_perf_watcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I worked on a performance troubleshooting case where frequent short time degradation of IO performance on NetApp storage was suspected to be the root cause. The problem was to get some proof as looking at the averages of IO service time was not alarming enough. I decided to write a tool that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=520&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to find tables containing lots of unused space?</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/how-to-find-tables-containing-lots-of-unused-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why the table segment consumes as much space as it does and how does one know if the space allocated by each of the segments is actually used for storing data and is not mostly empty? Those question did bother me time to time and I was looking for a method [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=503&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to back up a table properly before installation of an online datafix?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you give direct read-write access to the production databases for the functional support and maintenance teams? We try not to and one of the reasons is to test every change before it&#8217;s deployed on production. This in turn means that DBAs are the ones who apply all the changes including small datafixes. We have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=495&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can an autoextensible data file grow bigger then dba_data_files.maxbytes? Sure!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got some alarms about a tablespace running out of free space, closer look revealed that those were false alarms and there was still enough free space to allow segments grow. Probably that is a well known thing for you, but I didn&#8217;t know that &#8220;bytes&#8221; in dba_data_files can get larger then &#8220;maxbytes&#8221;. That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=486&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the context index on the MV so large?</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/why-is-the-context-index-on-the-mv-so-large/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217; m not saying the context indexes on MVs are always large, but sometimes they can be. Today we found an issue in production database where the token information table (named DR$&#60;index_name&#62;$I)  of the context index named &#60;index name&#62; was ~1.7Gb in size, but the MV table segment which the index was created on was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=476&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG 2010 presentation “Surviving the Crisis with the Help of Oracle Database Resource Manager”</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/ukoug-2010-presentation-%e2%80%9csurviving-the-crisis-with-the-help-of-oracle-database-resource-manager%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the slides from my 2nd UKOUG Technology &#38; E-Business Suite 2010 presentation. &#8220;UKOUG_TEBS2010_SurvivingTheCrisisWithTheHelpOfOracleDatabaseResourceManager_MarisElsins&#8220;. As I mentioned during the presenattion, If you find you have additional questions about the topic when you come back home from The UKOUG 2010 conerence, this is the place to ask them! I&#8217;ll do my best to answer them<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=470&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG 2010 presentation &#8220;Internals of Concurrent Managers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/ukoug-2010-presentation-internals-of-concurrent-managers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, thanks to those who attended my presentation at UKOUG Conference Series Technology &#38; E-Business Suite 2010, was nice to talk for such an interested audiance. As I promised, here is the presentation &#8220;UKOUG_TEBS2010_InternalsOfConcurentManagers_MarisElsins&#8220;. The post will be updated later with more details, but if you have any additional questions you can meet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=464&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is redo size affected by nologging indexes?</title>
		<link>http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/is-redo-size-affected-by-nologging-indexes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yury recently raised a topic about nologging segments in e-Business Suite database. The discussion later evolved to on how indexes are affected by the nologging setting (is it worth putting indexes in nologging mode to reduce the redo generation). I wasn&#8217;t quite sure about the answer, so I decided to test it myself. Read on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appsdbalife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4624858&amp;post=436&amp;subd=appsdbalife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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