Author Archives: Bobby

About Bobby

I live in Chandler, Arizona with my wife and three daughters. I work for US Foods, the second largest food distribution company in the United States. I have worked in the Information Technology field since 1989. I have a passion for Oracle database performance tuning because I enjoy challenging technical problems that require an understanding of computer science. I enjoy communicating with people about my work.

Final day – OpenWorld and Delphix Sync

This morning was my last day of Oracle OpenWorld sessions and this afternoon and evening finished off my day with Delphix Sync. The first talk was my only NoSQL talk. It was interesting because the claim was that NoSQL was … Continue reading

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Wednesday OpenWorld

Well, it was a long day but it ended in a fun way. Today I was back to the normal OpenWorld sessions starting with the general session. It was eye-opening because the speakers described a new CPU chip that they … Continue reading

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Tuesday OakTable World – brain fried!

Instead of going to the normal OpenWorld events today I went to OakTable World.  Now my brain is fried from information overload. 🙂 It started at 8 am with a nice talk about hash joins and Bloom filters.  Toon Koppelaars … Continue reading

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Monday OpenWorld

It was a good first full day at Oracle OpenWorld.  It started with the keynote led by Oracle’s CEO.  Of course he was very upbeat about Oracle’s products.  But, I found his comments about the economy and the way it … Continue reading

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Reviewing Delphix blog posts before OpenWorld

I just finished reviewing my Delphix blog posts in preparation for the talks that I will give during OpenWorld. I find myself referring back to my blog to help me remember what I have done in the past. I was thinking that … Continue reading

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Toastmaster Talk – DBA Toolkit

Here is a YouTube video of a short Toastmasters talk of mine about a DBA topic.  It was probably too technical for the audience but may interest the readers of this blog. Here was a post about a similar topic: https://www.bobbydurrettdba.com/2012/06/22/working-on-performance-toolkit/ … Continue reading

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My Delphix presentation at OakTable World

It is official.  I will be doing my Delphix presentation at OakTable World during the Oracle OpenWorld conference at the end of this month.  My talk is at 9 am on Tuesday, October 27. I will describe our journey as … Continue reading

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AZORA – Arizona Oracle User Group new location

The Arizona Oracle User Group has moved tomorrow’s meeting to Oracle’s offices on Camelback road: Meetup link with meeting details Bobby

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Plan change monitor prevents user impact from bad plan

This morning a colleague of mine noticed an alert from our plan change monitor and prevented any impact on the users by forcing a SQL’s plan to its normal fast plan before the users could be affected.  I want to … Continue reading

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Reminder: Great free computer science and Python programming class starts Wednesday

I mentioned this class earlier in a blog post but I wanted to remind people who read this blog that the class is starting again on Wednesday.  Here is the URL for the class: link The class is completely free and … Continue reading

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