(Maarten Smeets) Measuring performance of services can be done in various ways. In this blog article I will describe a method of measuring Oracle SOA service response times with Splunk a popular monitoring tool.

(Andrew Reid) I attended the UKOUG conference early in December. While I was there, I went to a presentation by Chris Saxon, where he explained how Oracle decides when to use an index. The example below, which I ran in an Oracle 11.1 database, is based on what I learnt.

(Patch) This is something I knew somewhere in the back of my head, but had forgotten about until now.

(mdinh) From a time far, far way, I tweeted about Oracle Software Patching with OPLAN (Doc ID 1306814.1) and decided to give it a try.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) Oracle JET provides out of the box support for collection paging control, this allows us to use table/list UI with show more option or pagination – Paging Control: High Watermark Table with unknown row count. The main advantage of pagination from performance point of view – no

(Scott Wesley) When I first wrote Chapter 9 of my book, Choosing Processing Options, I knew I still had a lot of research and experimentation to do, particularly regarding the async parameter. Below is a summary of the outcome of this work and drove a full revision of my original chapter.

(connormcdonald) “Strange” things happen when you take a tablespace or its datafile(s) offline.

(mdinh) When stopping crs, there are 50+ outputs and is Attempting really necessary?

(Mike Dietrich) There’s nothing more annoying than unwanted and useless email newsletters in your inbox.

(David Fitzjarrell) A “blast from the past” was recently updated by Oracle Support; it involves a subpool memory leak in Oracle 11.2.0.1 and shared cursors. Originally submitted in 2010 this issue was updated this year to reflect the status of ‘Fixed in Product Version 12.1’.