A New Look
A New Start… Quite a lot has changed since I last posted on this website. I had just left Oracle to join Google… A year and a half later I returned to Oracle...
General
Load Generation
A New Release of Swingbench
A New Release of Swingbench… Along with a new website, I’m rolling out a new build of Swingbench. This release is a little embarrassing for me, as it include...
Issues
Making Colour work on the Command Line for Windows
I’ll make a confession. I don’t own a Microsoft Windows Machine. I never have and probably never will. This means that I generally never get the oppertunity ...
Benchmarking
Should I Restore The Database After Each Benchmark Run?
This short blog isn’t about best practices when conducting benchmarks. I think there are plenty of formal papers on the subject available with just a quick G...