OctoPerf Dynamic Browsing
I want to improve the Virtual User (VU) I created in my previous blog by adding dynamic browsing of the shop web site. Indeed, as VU is based on a HAR file, it is statically browsing the website....
View ArticleSQL Server: Is this ad hoc workload an issue?
I ran into an interesting scenario with a customer that I want to share in this blog post.This customer is running a data-loading activity on a monthly basis from his business application.He did not...
View ArticleNew Features 23c, Overview (in extracts):
In this blog I want to introduce some of the new features of the Oracle 23c developer edition. It will be only a selection of some of the main features. It is not the intention to give you a thorough...
View ArticlePlotting SQL Server Performance counters with Python
As a consultant, I often use Performance Monitor (Perfmon) to collect performance metrics for SQL Server. After running Perfmon for, say, a week to capture a baseline of server activity, you can end...
View ArticleOracle 23ai – True Cache
Introduced in Oracle 23ai is a feature called “True Cache”, which is part of Oracle’s in-memory database solution designed to optimize database performance by leveraging various caching mechanisms. To...
View ArticleStatspack with Oracle Database 19c and Multitenant
Introduction When it comes to performance analysis on Oracle databases, everybody think about Diagnostic Pack. This is a very complete tool and it brings much more metrics than a DBA can analyze. But...
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