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SELECT Journal
Volume 15, No. 3, 3rd Quarter 2008

Features

• RAC for Beginners: The Basics
  By Dan Norris
  Norris introduces Real Application Clusters (RAC) to beginner DBAs by providing understanding about how RAC works.

• Oracle Services on RAC: Five Things You Might Not Know
  By Jeremy Schneider
  Learn five things about Oracle Services that are not well understood and see how they can help to increase availability and performance of Oracle Databases in both RAC and non-RAC databases.

• Instance Affinity in a RAC Environment
  By Han Xie
  Using performance statistics, Xie shows how you can implement Instance Affinity for Advanced Queues in a RAC environment to greatly improve performance.

• Detecting and Repairing Corrupt Blocks in Oracle Database 11g with the Data Recovery Adviser
  By Lutz Hartmann
  Hartmann discusses RMAN in Oracle Database 11g and the Data Recovery Adviser. He demonstrates this tool by providing an example of using the new 11g repair interfaces with a block media recover.

• Oracle Database 11g New Feature: Cube Organized Materialized Views
  By Brian Carr
  Carr discusses Oracle Database add-on features throughout previous database versions and highlights the Cube Organized Material Views in Oracle Database 11g.

• How Sampling Error Impacts Execution Plans: The Effects of Estimating Optimizer Statistics
  By David Lipowitz
  In this article, Lipowitz demonstrates the unusual case where gathering statistics, and gathering statistics alone, drastically changes execution plans.

Regular Columns

• From the Editor
• From the IOUG President
• A SELECT Few
• SELECT Star
• SIG Spotlight

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