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		<title>Rebuilding Indexes Every Sunday Afternoon !!</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/rebuilding-indexes-every-sunday-afternoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had to share this amusing article on &#8220;Scheduling Oracle Index Rebuilding&#8220;.
Regular readers of this blog can no doubt pick the various inaccuracies and strawman arguments with this article. It&#8217;s was nice however to reminisce and take a stroll down memory lane back to the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s when many DBAs indeed did spend every Sunday afternoon rebuilding indexes and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1074&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle OpenWorld &#8211; Day 5 Hightlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started the day desperate again for a coffee at the OTN lounge.
I was looking forward to catching Kevin Closson at the Unconference but unfortunately the session was cancelled at the last minute. So spent some time having a nice chat with Chris Muir and Tim Hall who I had the pleasure to meet when I attended the ODOUG conference in Monterey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1070&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Openworld &#8211; Day 4 Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I set out to reduce my pace today with only limited success.
My first session was to attended Alex Gorbachev and Paul Vallee&#8217;s Unconference session on how to make DBAs highly available. Interesting discussion on some of the various challenges confronting DBAs, such as controlling the balance between the need for stability and availability vs. the need of some organisations for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1063&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle OpenWorld 2009 &#8211; Day 3 Highlights</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/oracle-openworld-2009-day-3-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle OpenWorld]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing to note about day 3 is that it&#8217;s wet. I mean really really wet and really windy as well. Considering my home town of Canberra has been in drought now for many years with water restrictions in place, I haven&#8217;t seen this much rain for a very long time. That said, I believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1056&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle OpenWorld 2009 &#8211; Day 2 Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a busy day today.
The effects of drinking perhaps one too many margaritas at the Oracle ACE dinner last night meant I was in desperate need of my morning coffee to start the day. Thank goodness for the OTN lounge  
There were a number of announcements today but perhaps the main one from my perspective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1050&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle OpenWorld 2009 &#8211; So It Begins &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/oracle-openworld-2009-so-it-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I&#8217;ve had one hell of a 2 week period !!
I&#8217;ve been travelling around the southern part of England with my son, as part of  a school football tour, with 22 other teenage boys. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun but it&#8217;s also been extremely tiring, getting up early each morning, packing in as much as possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1046&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unconference &#8211; Highlight of Oracle OpenWorld 2009</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/unconference-highlight-of-oracle-openworld-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m about to embark on another overseas adventure, this one taking me right around the world. I&#8217;ll first visit the country of my birth, England, for a few weeks before making my way across the Atlantic Ocean to attend Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco.
This will be my second Oracle OpenWorld.  I already have a packed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1042&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CBO CPU Costing Model and Indexes &#8211; Another Introduction</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-cbo-cpu-costing-model-and-indexes-another-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously discussed some basic concepts and formulas regarding how the CBO derives index related costings via the I/O costing model. Time to look at system statistics and the CPU costing model with specific regard to indexes.
 
The first point I would make is that the CPU costing model has some significant improvements over the older I/O [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1036&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lanyon United Masters Div 3 Football Premiers 2009 (We Are The Champions)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday mornings, I play for the mighty Lanyon United Football Club, in the Canberra Masters Division 3 competition. You need to be over 35 to compete, meaning it&#8217;s a league specifically for those  who are highly skilled, have years of previous experience but not handicapped with youthful exuberance  
In the previous 2 years, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1033&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia and Tall Buildings</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/malaysia-and-tall-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canberra is not only the capital of Australia, a fact not particularly well known outside our shores, but it&#8217;s also one of the most fabulous cities in the world in which to live. This last fact is not particularly well known within Australia either  
It&#8217;s a beautiful, peaceful city that offers a wonderful standard of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1027&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING Parameter</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/optimizer_index_caching-parameter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle Cost Based Optimizer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously discussed, the CBO assumes the actual costs and overheads associated with all I/Os to be the same, regardless of the type of I/O, unless told otherwise via the optimizer_index_cost_adj parameter.
 
Another key assumption the CBO makes by default is that all I/Os will be physical I/Os (PIO) and so be relatively expensive to perform [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1014&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demonizing Foreign Keys (&#8220;Helden&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/demonizing-foreign-keys-helden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mate Marcel Kratochvil, a fellow Canberran Oracle ACE Director and David Bowie fan, has recently published a paper finally called &#8220;Discussing Foreign Keys and their usage in the Database&#8221; in which (in his own words) he is &#8220;demonizing foreign keys&#8221;.
It&#8217;s a really good read, well worth the effort, in which covers various interesting topics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=1006&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CBO and Indexes: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ Part III</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/the-cbo-and-indexes-optimizer_index_cost_adj-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Index Access Path]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a bit of a layoff to organise a few upcoming overseas trips, while watching plenty of Ashes Cricket and the brilliantly funny &#8221;Flight Of The Conchords&#8221; DVDs, it&#8217;s about time I got back to my humble little blog.
In Part II, we looked at a really bad way to set the optimizer_index_cost_adj parameter, by just setting it a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=994&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Index Internals and Best Practices Seminar Dates</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/upcoming-index-internals-and-best-practices-seminar-dates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a number of upcoming dates for my &#8220;Index Internals And Index Internals&#8221; 2 Day Seminar.
A couple of dates in Asia:
Singapore 31 August &#8211; 1 September 2009
Malaysia 3-4 September 2009
 
And a couple of dates in Europe:
Switzerland 2-3 November 2009
France 5-6 November 2009
 
If you enjoy the contents of this blog, you&#8217;ll likely enjoy my seminar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardfoote.wordpress.com&blog=2301564&post=991&subd=richardfoote&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CBO and Indexes: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ Part II</title>
		<link>http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-cbo-and-indexes-optimizer_index_cost_adj-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Foote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ Part I,  I discussed how this parameter can significantly impact the overall cost of an index related execution path by &#8220;adjusting&#8221; the overall costs by the percentage denoted in the parameter. An OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ value of 25 for example will result in the costs of an index access path being reduced to just 25% of the calculated total.
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