NOTE: Material on this web page is generally out of date. All content has been released into the public domain, concerns products that are no longer marketed or sold by the company that owns them, or has been edited to remove confidential material.
My most current material is generally confidential to my employer.
White Papers
- Integration Server EAI Performance
- White paper for product support and field staff, describing the performance of the Forté Conductor workflow engine under large-scale benchmark workloads.
- Dynamic Logging
- White paper for engineering management, proposing standardization of a product feature that dramatically reduces support cost and effort.
Presentations
- UDS Overview
- 2005 presentation for product support and field staff, giving a brief introduction to the Forté Application Development Environment product, aka 'Sun ONE UDS'.
- Forté for OS/390 - An Insider's View
- Presentation at Forté Forum customer conference in 1999, describing the architecture and performance testing results of the product on IBM mainframes.
Oracle Magazine Articles
- Capacity Planning Basics for OLTP
- A very basic introduction to the concepts of transaction rate and path length, with a little math to get DBAs and management to think quantitatively.
- Improving Access to Different Types of Tables
- A simplified introduction to RDBMS buffer pool requirements for several kinds of tables.
- ORACLE and the IBM Mainframe I/O Architecture
- A historical introduction to IBM mainframe channel and disk architecture, with the first published description of IBM's Media Manager and how Oracle takes advantage of it to outperform DB2.
- Performance Issues for Log Files
- The basics of RDBMS logging, with tuning suggestions for log file placement and log buffer sizing.
- Sizing Considerations for Large Buffer Caches
- How can you tell when the buffer pool is big enough, or when it's too big?
- SQL*Net Version 2 on MVS
- Marketing piece describing network access to Oracle on IBM mainframes.