Optimizing work environment. Part II, command line

(the first part can be found here)

Now let’s consider command line. There is a lot of things that can be done to improve user experience here as well.

1) Maintain a local script repository on the machine(s) you’re using the most. To make sqlplus search there, define SQLPATH variable (using Control Panel => System => Advanced => Environment variables on Windows, or shell initialization scripts such as .profile or .bash_profile on Unix).

2) To facilitate synchronization of scripts among different environments, use web-repositories. One option here is to go with a plain http (or ftp) repository e.g. using any (free or paid) hosting service, or your own web server if you have any. The other option is to go with a code repository tool like git that utilizes the secure (https) protocol. Plain http has the advantage of you being able to run scripts directly from the online repository (see here for more detail). But if your internet connection requires proxy, this may prove difficult (setting HTTP_PROXY variable might help, but I myself had no luck with it).

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Optimizing working environment. Part I, GUI

Working with database performance troubleshooting means dealing with challenging and exciting problems. But it also means doing certain things over and over. And over. Like typing the same query or clicking the same button zillion times a day. And when you’re doing something very frequently, anything that can be done to simplify or automate such tasks becomes very important. So I decided to share some of the tricks I use to optimize my working experience in a short mini-series. This post will be on GUI, and the part II will be on command line.

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HotSOS symposium 2015

This week I participated (online option) in HotSOS conference — the only conference that is focused entirely around Oracle database performance and internals. Like a year ago, it was a great conference, I really enjoyed it. Predictably, the number one topic was the in-memory option. Probably every third talk was about it. I learned a lot of stuff I didn’t know before (and I strongly suspect that this stuff wouldn’t be easy to find anywhere else).

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