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Posted on 1:12 pm August 23, 2010 by James Morle
This year at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham, acceptance permitting, I will present the successor to my original Sane SAN whitepaper first penned in 2000. The initial paper was spectacularly well received, relatively speaking, mostly because disk storage at that time was very much a black box to DBAs and a great deal of mystique surrounded its operation. Well, nothing much has changed on that front, so I figured it was very much time to update/rewrite the paper for modern technology and trends and try to impose my occasionally humble opinion on the reader 
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Posted on 11:32 am June 2, 2010 by James Morle
I'm sure many of you are already enlightened enough about the dangers of ratios and averages, the most famous blunder of all being the 'cache hit ratio'. It's not that all ratios and averages are useless, but it is surely the case that most are useless, and that all can be misleading. This posting is about an example of a misleading average, one that hides the truth from the reader unless they look elsewhere. Read the full article
Posted on 8:21 pm May 29, 2010 by James Morle
A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a projection that the $/GB for flash drives will meet the $/GB for hard drives within 3-4 years. It was more of a feeling based upon current pricing with Moore's Law applied than a well researched statement, but it felt about right. I've since been thinking some more about this within the context of current storage industry offerings from the likes of EMC, Netapp and Oracle, wondering what this might mean. Read the full article
Posted on 3:57 pm February 16, 2010 by James Morle
Welcome back for the concluding part of this series of blogs.
In the last part I went through a brief primer about code execution and stack frames in preparation for this posting. I hope that wasn't too boring for everyone - I think it's really important to make sure all the preliminary knowledge is covered and not make too many assumptions about the reader. In this part I will finally get to the point, and talk about some alternative techniques for determining the reasons for poor performance for our example user session. Read the full article
Posted on 4:41 pm January 18, 2010 by James Morle
OK, here it is, the 'first part of the last part', though the topics discussed in these articles will be discussed more over time in my blog and in Tanel's. I've split it into two subparts, because it was just getting insanely long as single posting. Read the full article
