COLLABORATE 08, StorageTrends and More Oracle Pricing

The early days of Real Application Clusters (RAC) were heavy on promise but light on quality delivery. Many early RAC installations trying to go beyond two nodes encountered significant issues. As a result,many organizations are reticent to embrace RAC. RAC usage is now widely successful and common in large installations.SELECT’s Editor Dr. Paul Dorsey asked…

The early days of Real Application Clusters (RAC) were heavy on promise but light on quality delivery. Many early RAC installations trying to go beyond two nodes encountered significant issues. As a result,many organizations are reticent to embrace RAC. RAC usage is now widely successful and common in large installations.SELECT’s Editor Dr. Paul Dorsey asked…

Dear Fellow IOUG Members: As I begin my term as IOUG president, I’d like to share with you someof the organization’s accomplishments thus far, as well as some exciting new activities that will be taking place the remainder of the year. In addition,I think it’s a great time to thank Ari Kaplan for his great…

Dear Fellow IOUG Members: As I begin my term as IOUG president, I’d like to share with you someof the organization’s accomplishments thus far, as well as some exciting new activities that will be taking place the remainder of the year. In addition,I think it’s a great time to thank Ari Kaplan for his great…

Dear Fellow IOUG Members: As I begin my term as IOUG president, I’d like to share with you someof the organization’s accomplishments thus far, as well as some exciting new activities that will be taking place the remainder of the year. In addition,I think it’s a great time to thank Ari Kaplan for his great…

Welcome to this issue of SELECT Journal! Just as children grow up quickly, technologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC) that took baby steps just a few years ago have grown up and matured quickly as well. RAC has slowly but surely permeated into most of the data centers around the world providing both scalability…

Welcome to this issue of SELECT Journal! Just as children grow up quickly, technologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC) that took baby steps just a few years ago have grown up and matured quickly as well. RAC has slowly but surely permeated into most of the data centers around the world providing both scalability…

Welcome to this issue of SELECT Journal! Just as children grow up quickly, technologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC) that took baby steps just a few years ago have grown up and matured quickly as well. RAC has slowly but surely permeated into most of the data centers around the world providing both scalability…

In this article, Lipowitz demonstrates the unusual case where gathering statistics, and gathering statistics alone, drastically changes execution plans.