Oracle Living Books

Welcome to the Oracle Living Book by Tanel Poder

If you find the code snippet below amusing, then this living book is for you!

SQL> ORADEBUG SETMYHEAD

Statement processed.

SQL> ORADEBUG DUMP BRAINSTATE 0x10a

Statement processed.

SQL> ORADEBUG FLUSH

Statement processed.

SQL> ORADEBUG CLOSE_TRACE

Statement processed.

If you do not find it amusing then you must read this site 4 times every day, in the morning, lunchtime, evening and while you are asleep, unil you do find this amusing!

I call this content a "living book" as so many people have asked me when am I going to write an Oracle internals or troubleshooting book.

The answer is never, if talking about regular old fashioned printed-on-paper books. I think the subject just changes too fast, also it takes at least a year of full time work to come up with a book which would be any good and by the time of publishing many details would already be outdated.

That's why I will build my Oracle tuning, troubleshooting guides and performance reference here and call it a living book as the content will constantly evolve here.

Oracle Living Book Topic Requests

In fact, you can also influence the direction this living book will be going, by suggesting writing topics here:

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