{"id":107,"date":"2011-02-11T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T00:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=107"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:56:43","slug":"common-sense-for-the-huddled-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Common sense for the huddled masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January, McNeely Technology Solutions sponsored the Dallas Oracle Users Group meeting.&nbsp; The speaker was <a href=\"http:\/\/carymillsap.blogspot.com\/\">Cary Millsap<\/a>, who discussed some fundamentals of Oracle performance measurement and tuning.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a person with a deep understanding of a topic to be able to clearly and confidently convey it in simple terms.&nbsp; Cary has that gift, which is a good thing, because he covered what some consider to be difficult concepts.&nbsp; But those concepts are basic building blocks to a \u201ccommon sense\u201d approach to performance tuning.<\/p>\n<p>And, sometimes, don\u2019t we all need to just stop, breathe, and re-absorb the basic concepts of our chosen technology?&nbsp; The basics are so easy to forsake, to mislay, to overlook in the clamor of competing ideas, doubting peers, vendor product claims, panicked deadlines, and promising-sounding Google search results.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Cary will come back again next year and share some more \u201csense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, McNeely Technology Solutions sponsored the Dallas Oracle Users Group meeting.&nbsp; The speaker was Cary Millsap, who discussed some fundamentals of Oracle performance measurement and tuning.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a person with a deep understanding of a topic to be able to clearly and confidently convey it in simple terms.&nbsp; Cary has that gift, which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}