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I saw a load of 44 on a node of our production Exadata and it worried me.  The AWR report looks like this: Host CPU Load Average CPUs Begin End %User %System %WIO %Idle —– ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— … Continue reading →

I just found out that this meeting was cancelled.  We will have to catch the next one. 🙂 – 3/16/2015 Sign up for the Arizona Oracle User Group (AZORA) meeting next week: signup url The email that I received from … Continue reading →

My Delphix user group presentation went well today. 65 people attended.  It was great to have so much participation. Here are links to my PowerPoint slides and a recording of the WebEx: Slides: PowerPoint Recording: WebEx(NO LONGER EXISTS) Also, I … Continue reading →

My first blog post was March 5, 2012, three years ago today. I have enjoyed blogging.  Even though I am talking about topics related to my work blogging does not feel like work. The great thing about blogging is that … Continue reading →

I joined twitter.  I don’t really know how to use it.  I’m setup as Bobby Durrett, @bobbydurrettdba if that means anything to you. 🙂 – Bobby 4/27/21 I no longer tweet. 🙂

I mentioned this same effect in an earlier post about SQL profiles: link I get a different plan_hash_value values for a query each time I run an explain plan or run the query.  I see this in queries whose plan … Continue reading →

On March 11 at 10 am California time I will be speaking in a Delphix User Group Webex session. Here is the sign up url: WebEx sign up(NO LONGER EXISTS). Adam Leventhal, the Delphix CTO, will also be on the … Continue reading →

A few weeks back on the weekend just before I went on call we got a complaint about slowness on an important set of reports.  I worried that the slowness of these reports would continue during my support week so … Continue reading →

In an earlier post I described how some queries with long parse times were causing long library cache lock waits.  Friday I applied a patch from Oracle that resolved the long parse times.  Here are the conditions which may relate … Continue reading →

Here is the link: url It looks like our meeting tomorrow will be on Oracle 12c new features.  I’m looking forward to participating. 🙂 – Bobby