A pretty recent summary article from Oracle on enabling and getting SQL monitoring reports in various ways (including historical captures):
Real-Time SQL Monitoring: a MUST for SQL Tuning
blogs.oracle.com/coretec/orac...
(I'm working on something new & related too ;-)
P99 Conf from @scylladb.com is looking for talks on eBPF 🐝
I've seen quite a few impressive talks there from the likes of Liz Rice, Tanel Poder, and Jose Fernandez. CfP is open until May 29th, let me know if you need help
What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling.
All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Instagram account takeover happening.
The LONG data type in Oracle Database is tricky to work with
Sadly the partition high value column uses LONG
26ai eased this by adding CLOB and JSON versions of this
But what if you're on older releases?
@tanelpoder.com shows how to convert LONG to VARCHAR2 with PL/SQL
Releasing an eBPF Runtime Reporter and Profiler tool (brr).
I've used it for profiling eBPF programs themselves.
It unifies bpftop-like utilization/event frequency monitoring with perf_events based CPU sampling, with source code line mapping.
github.com/tanelpoder/b...
Releasing an eBPF Runtime Reporter and Profiler tool (brr).
I've used it for profiling eBPF programs themselves.
It unifies bpftop-like utilization/event frequency monitoring with perf_events based CPU sampling, with source code line mapping.
github.com/tanelpoder/b...
A pretty recent summary article from Oracle on enabling and getting SQL monitoring reports in various ways (including historical captures):
Real-Time SQL Monitoring: a MUST for SQL Tuning
blogs.oracle.com/coretec/orac...
(I'm working on something new & related too ;-)
Almost Summer Sale 2026: All my flagship video courses discounted until end of May!
Plus *free* Exadata Internals & Advanced Performance Metrics seminar videos!
tanelpoder.com/posts/almost...
Almost Summer Sale 2026: All my flagship video courses discounted until end of May!
Plus *free* Exadata Internals & Advanced Performance Metrics seminar videos!
tanelpoder.com/posts/almost...
🚨 periodic reminder for macOS computer havers:
System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions
1. Go through the entire list
2. Remove stuff + Toggle stuff off (or on)
3. Breathe a bit easier
Tahoe: support.apple.com/guide/mac-he...
Sequoia: support.apple.com/guide/mac-he...