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
A new build of DB Time Monitor
Following quickly on the heels of the update to MonitorDB I’m releasing a new build of DBTimeMonitor. This is a simple update using the latest Oracle jdbc dr...
A new build of MonitorDB
I’ve just updated MonitorDB. It’s never going to replace Grafana but if you need a quick solution to monitor a few values inside of the Oracle Database and y...
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...
Oracle
Oracle Hybrid Partitioned Tables using Object Storage on ADB
Hybrid Partitioned tables continue to be one of my favorite features of Oracle Database 19c and they’ve gotten better over time as we’ve introduced new featu...