Real Application Testing

ADB Migration: Why does my SPA report has so many errors?

I’m dealing lately with several migration to Oracle Autonomous Database, mostly to ADB Serverless (called “shared” a while ago, in short: ADB-S). With one of the customers we run SQL Performance Analyzer reports with about 1500 statements. But one topic came up in this ADB Migration: Why does my SPA report has so many errors? Let’s see why that is …

A little bit of background on SPA

The SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) is one of the two pieces of Real Application Testing. This is a feature in the database I keep using …

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Björn Bolltoft’s Blog: Oracle Database Managebility

I know, there are so many blogs out there. Some are good and helpful, others are driven by marketing messages only. But I believe this one will become a really good one in the Oracle universe: Björn Bolltoft’s Blog: Oracle Database Manageability.

Björn Bolltoft’s Blog: Oracle Database Managebility

First of all, let me say some words about Björn. I know Björn now for over 10 years. But he works even longer than I for Oracle. Björn joined Oracle Sweden in 1995. I bumped into Björn at our second Tech Challenge training. This is a hard-core training for geeks, …

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CSX Corporation Upgrades Databases 2x Faster With Oracle Real Application Testing

Wow – one of our reference projects went into the Yahoo Finance webpages. Carol Tagliaferri (my direct manager) worked with CSX, one of the largest US based railway companies, over a longer period together with the RAT team, and helped CSX to successfully upgrade and migrate their database landscape to Oracle Database 11.2.
Plus: We did present about CSX at Oracle Open World 2012 as this project is a perfect showcase for:

(a) an Upgrade project with many databases
(b) over a longer period of time
(c) using Real Application Testing decreasing the testing effort by factors!

Read the published …

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