In January, McNeely Technology Solutions sponsored the Dallas Oracle Users Group meeting. The speaker was Cary Millsap, who discussed some fundamentals of Oracle performance measurement and tuning.
It takes a person with a deep understanding of a topic to be able to clearly and confidently convey it in simple terms. Cary has that gift, which is a good thing, because he covered what some consider to be difficult concepts. But those concepts are basic building blocks to a “common sense” approach to performance tuning.
And, sometimes, don’t we all need to just stop, breathe, and re-absorb the basic concepts of our chosen technology? The basics are so easy to forsake, to mislay, to overlook in the clamor of competing ideas, doubting peers, vendor product claims, panicked deadlines, and promising-sounding Google search results.
I hope Cary will come back again next year and share some more “sense.”
There is nothing like having a quick walk around the block to clear your head and contemplate the issue at hand. Often times the solution seems to gleam from a fundamental understanding that you have long overlooked or embarrassingly the exact fundamental understanding. In any event the high stress positions we sit in, can be sometimes calmed by the aforementioned recommendations.
I’d like to review a video or audio stream of the discourse by Mr. Millsap.
And why is it that when we call in an expert, or even tell several people about our “complicated” problem, that it’s those times we’re overlooking the basic concept? Embarrassing. We’re most brilliant when no one is looking. 🙁