The idea of grid computing is to use many inexpensive devices to provide the total resources required, thereby providing intrinsic redundancy (if one device fails, replace it) and scalability (add more devices as the load increases). This is similar to the concept used with RAID. Grid Computing,

According to many studies, 40% of application outages are caused by operator or user errors. Part of being human is making mistakes. But these errors are extremely difficult to avoid and in can be particularly difficult to recover from without advance planning and the right technology. Such errors c

If you’ve been developing applications on Oracle for a while, you’ve no doubt come across the concept of «Bind Variables». Bind variables are one of those Oracle concepts that experts frequently cite as being key to application performance, but it’s often not all that easy to pin down exactly what t

In the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, when you repeatedly use the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle (System.Data.OracleClient) to connect to Oracle, you may notice that the number of active sessions in the Oracle database increases.

(Rich Schwerin) The acceleration and adoption of new technologies can progress only so far without commonly accepted standards. The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) is a consortium of more than 30 leading vendors and customers working together to accelerate deployment of grids in enterprise data cente

(James F. Koopmann) A while ago I published an article on Killing the Oracle DBMS_JOB. This was also a favorite of some of my readers and I still get questions on it today. So I thought I would post it here as it has surely been lost out in the web archives unless you search deep. Just remember the

(Carolyn Hamm) Thanks to rapidly falling disk costs, companies can now afford to store trillions of bytes of valuable information. However, data professionals know that storing the data is just the foundation and the real challenge is making sense from these huge data stores and mining them for stat

(Lewis R Cunningham) This is the second and final part of a review of Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, sub-titled: Expert Secrets for High Performance Clustered Grid Computing, a part of the Rampant Press, Oracle In-Focus series.

(Matt Bush, Shawn Kelley and Mahmoud Ahmadian) This document was designed to assist database administrators in migrating deployed Oracle Database Standard Edition One databases on Dell Platforms to an Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition with Real Application Clusters environment. (pdf)

For Oracle DBAs, scripts, and the time they save, are invaluable for the maintenance and security of enterprise data. The scripts found in this downloadable PDF document automate several day-to-day processes, freeing time for other important administrative tasks. The first script monitors the fi