One of the biggest problems in software performance today occurs when the people who write software are different from the people who are required to solve the performance problems that their software causes. It works like this: Architects design a system and pass the specification off to the developers. The developers implement the specs the architects gave them, while t… Read more
This video is a recording from the webinar broadcast by Red Gate on 24th January 2012. You may’ve heard the idea that real developers don’t need tools, and the mark of a good developer is someone who can hand-code everything. But there are certain tasks where it doesn’t make sense to disregard using tools. In particular, critical tasks that need… Read more
I love stories about performance problems. Recently, my friend Debra Lilley sent me this one: I went to see a very large publishing company about 6 months after they went live. I asked them what their biggest issue was, and they told me querying in GL was very slow, and I was able to fix quite easily. (There was a… Read more
A one-day course taught by Cary Millsap London, UK, 8 Sept 2011 Oracle trace data is an extraordinarily rich information source for database application developers, administrators, and anyone who cares about the speed of an Oracle Database application. Oracle trace files include information that yields value throughout your software life cycle, whether you’ve bought prebuilt applications or built them yourself… Read more
