SQLTXPLAIN quick tips and tricks and DB Optimizer VST 1

Lately I’ve been busy on projects and research so I’m putting more and more stuff on my wiki/braindump… and really I need to catch up on blogging.
I have a longer draft post about SQLTXPLAIN.. but I haven’t finished it yet so I’ll just go with the quick post for now.

SQLTXPLAIN:

I’ve been using SQLTXPLAIN for quite a while, and I can say I’m a really big fan. It’s a cool tool to use for systematic SQL Tuning so I got them all neatly documented here
http://karlarao.tiddlyspot.com/#SQLTXPLAIN
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Easy and fast environment framework Reply

Getting tired of typing and setting your ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and troubleshooting your . oraenv ?
going/connecting to different client sites with different platforms and server environments sometimes it is frustrating just how long it takes to get a proper SQL*Plus environment

So I always make use of this script

http://karlarao.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5Bstep%20by%20step%20environment%5D%5D

Mining EMGC Notification Alerts Reply

The past few days, I’ve been troubleshooting an email alerting problem on an EMGC 11.1 install on a client site.
But this troubleshooting also includes setting up my own email server and reproducing the problem
http://karlarao.tiddlyspot.com/#EmailNotificationsNotSending

Watching/digging on the EM web based interface is tedious so I devised a way to just mine on the MGMT views… thanks to the MOS 421499.1 EMDIAG REPVFY Kit – which is a good source for mining the EMGC repository.