Dominic Giles

Dominic Giles

Technology enthusiast. Easily distracted. Oracle Database Product Manager

General

    A New Look

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    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...

Load Generation

    Going Big

    9 minute read

    Swingbench makes it simple to generate a dataset that you can simulate transactions against. However one of the problems I commonly see is that the users of ...

    Swingbench 2.7

    1 minute read

    Swingbench 2.7 So I finally found some time to get a new build of swingbench done. The big change is that swingbench now only supports JDK-17 and above. Now,...

    A New Release of Swingbench

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    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

    less than 1 minute read

    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

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    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

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    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...

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