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Avoid “Jump the Gun” Benchmark Tests

I was talking with someone the other day and noticed something funny. They were chomping at the bit to do some deep down Java tuning. Let’s make ten changes at once and blow this thing out of the water tuning. What they didn’t yet have was a clue on where they were going and how [...] Continue reading

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More March Madness with Oracle Exadata

There’s a basketball play called the elbow pass. The elbow pass is a behind-the-back pass — as the ball crosses the player’s back, the player hits it with his elbow, redirecting the ball back toward the side it started on.  It is rarely used and pretty much never results in points or a win. This [...] Continue reading

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All I Want for Christmas is a Good T4 Benchmark

I read an article the other day about a Santa school where aspiring Santas go to learn about how to be Santa Claus. Important concepts like how to comb your beard, how to make that amazing Ho Ho Ho, and where to properly keep your hands when a kid is on your lap. In this [...] Continue reading

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Is There a “Right” and “Wrong” with Benchmarks?

Like many of our politicians lately, Oracle has been proselytizing — in this case that there are certain benchmarks which are right and certain benchmarks which are wrong. In their evaluation Oracle claims to focus on all the right benchmarks while claiming that everyone else is focusing on the wrong ones. Let’s take a look [...] Continue reading

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Is There a “Right” and “Wrong” with Benchmarks?

Like many of our politicians lately, Oracle has been proselytizing — in this case that there are certain benchmarks which are right and certain benchmarks which are wrong. In their evaluation Oracle claims to focus on all the right benchmarks while claiming that everyone else is focusing on the wrong ones. Let’s take a look [...] Continue reading

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Whad’Ya Know – Great IBM Facts this Week

IBM Cloud revenue year to date has doubled full-year 2010 revenue. There’s a new redpaper, Smarter Data Centers: Accelerating the Move to a Smarter Planet, with extremely “cool” case studies. IBM announced the first Storage Performance Council (SPC) result with XIV, the very first on the SPC-2/E benchmark. The XIV Storage System demonstrated its ability [...] Continue reading

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Mowing Oracle’s Performance Weeds

We have a local town ordinance here where I live that fines you if your grass grows above 6 inches. Lately, I’ve become really annoyed with this legacy regulation. The higher your grass, the deeper its roots will be. Deeper roots allow your lawn to stay green with less water, and fend off insect attacks [...] Continue reading

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