Ixora Newsletter

Ixora used to produce an occassional email newsletter. Some old copies of the newsletter are still archived here.

September 2001
Over committed   - Are your commits hurting you?
Making a hash of it   - Tuning hash joins with event 10104
 
June 2001
Searching questions   - Improvements to the Ixora search engine
Briefly busy   - Catching buffer busy waits with SQL
Temporary confusion   - Sorting out temporary tablespaces
 
May 2001
Sin-onyms   - Are synonyms really bad?
Not so fast   - Incremental checkpointing can defeat commit cleanouts
 
April 2001
Histogram helper   - Help with histogram creation
Dependent SQL   - Profiling current table usage
Keeper fix   - A fix to keeper.sql
 
March 2001
Saving time   - How to tune Oracle CPU usage
Which way there?   - A script to consider alternative table access paths
A recursive ideal   - Tuning the buffer pool sizes under Oracle 8i
 
February 2001
Fingerprints   - Using V$LATCH_MISSES to characterize latching problems
Buying time   - How purchasing decisions affect Oracle CPU usage
No more double trouble   - The Oracle8i snapshot problems are fixed
 
January 2001
A change of heart   - Start your web searches at Ixora
Pressed for time   - Understanding the components of response time
 
December 2000
The best sort   - Using event 10032 to set sort_area_size
What's in a name?   - Why to avoid long file names and big directories
Large log buffers   - Not so bad since Oracle8
 
November 2000
Sort memory   - Do you tolerate unnecessary disk sorts?
cache buffers chains latches   - Why less is more under Oracle8i
Tuning checkpoints   - A new approach to an old problem
 
October 2000
Index compression   - An 8i performance boon waiting for you
The 8i buffer cache   - An explanation of the LRU algorithm in 8i
SAME   - Stripe And Mirror Everything - Really?
 
September 2000
Get answers fast   - A mailing list for advanced performance tuning answers
The cool pool   - Shared pool fragmentation problems are history in 8.1.6
DBWn's new tricks   - This old dog can juggle multiple write batches under 8i
APT scripts news   - Changes to our collection of advanced performance tuning scripts
 
August 2000
A comment about comments   - How NOT to comment out code in SQL scripts
Double trouble   - Some performance problems with snapshots in Oracle 8.1
More new APT scripts   - A few more additions to our collection of advanced performance tuning scripts
 
July 2000
Modification monitoring   - Why you should use it
New pool rules   - Controlling shared pool fragmentation under Oracle 8.1
New APT scripts   - A few additions to our collection of advanced performance tuning scripts
 
June 2000
Basic queuing   - An undocumented SQL statement for implementing a simple queuing mechanism
Tuning the redo copy latches   - There are big changes in how the redo copy latches are used in Oracle 8.1
The 8i log_buffer "maximum"   - A shrewd documentation illusion
objects_on_hot_latches.sql   - An APT script explained
 


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