The document provides an overview of various free Oracle tuning tools and their installation processes, aimed at enhancing database performance. It highlights tools such as rlsqlplus and snapper, explaining their functionalities and installation steps. The author emphasizes the benefits of using open-source tools for easier monitoring and optimization of Oracle databases.

1. hitchhikers guide to free
Oracle tuning tools
a quick guide
Björn Rost

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– Linux&Solaris automation
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7. WHY ORACLE?
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• basic operations same
between DBs
• instrumentation makes the
difference
• allows to deeply investigate
and explain issues
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8. (WRONG) TUNING CYCLE
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guess
change
hope

9. DON’T BE A STORMTROOPER DBA
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10. TUNING CYCLE
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understand
change
measure

11. TUNING IS SIMPLE, REALLY
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12. LAST WEEK’S EXAMPLE
• increasing gap in standby db
– change max_archive_processes parameter
– change some other parameters
– try rman recovery vs MRP
– increase parallelism
– reduce parallelism
– try more silver bullets…
– have SRE look into IO issues
– have SRE look at CPU issues
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guess
change
hope

13. LAST WEEK’S EXAMPLE
• select event from v$session
where program like '%MRP%’
– PX deq credit: send blkd
– PX deq credit: need buffer
• search for that on MOS
– 10.2 Parallel Standby Recovery Process Is Very Slow (Doc ID 420337.1)
• PARALLEL_EXECUTION_MESSAGE_SIZE=16k
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understand
change
measure

14. TYPES
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report real-time historic drill-down
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15. ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• incredibly useful and thought through
• from vendor, perfectly integrated
• many common views and methods
– coloured AAS view
– Top-SQL view
– Real-Time SQL monitor
– blocking session tree
– AWR Reports
– ADDM and other advisors
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16. ENTERPRISE MANAGER
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17. SO WHY USE CLI TOOLS?
• not licensed for Diag&Tuning
– Standard Edition
– EE without Diag&Tuning (a cardinal sin)
• very low throughput or no GUI access
• EM not setup/installed
– 12c EM express can get the job done
• you simply want to look like a nerd
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18. WHY OPEN SOURCE
• see and learn
– you can actually look at the code you are running
• collaborate and contribute
– want a new feature? implement yourself!
• free(*) means
– no costs (duh)
– get up and running really fast
– don’t worry about audits
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20. RLSQLPLUS
• sqlplus on steroids
• edit sqlplus CLI
• history
– up/down arrow
– search with CTRL-r
• auto-completion
– against custom wordlist
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21. RLSQLPLUS INSTALLATION STEP1
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[root@kickpuppet ~]# yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/rlwrap-0.42-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
rlwrap x86_64 0.41-1.el6 epel 92 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Installing : rlwrap-0.41-1.el6.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : rlwrap-0.41-1.el6.x86_64 1/1
Installed:
rlwrap.x86_64 0:0.41-1.el6
Complete!
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22. RLSQLPLUS INSTALLATION STEP2
• optional: download or generate wordfile
– for autocompletion
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$ curl -o wordfile.txt
http://blog.tanelpoder.com/files/scripts/setup/wordfile_11gR2.txt
http://blog.tanelpoder.com/files/scripts/setup/
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23. RLSQLPLUS INSTALLATION STEP 3
• create aliases around sqlplus
– and rman
– and dgmgrl
• avoid overriding the original name
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alias rlsqlplus='rlwrap -D2 -irc -b'''"@(){}[],+=&^%#;|''' -f ~/wordfile.txt
sqlplus'
alias rlrman='rlwrap -D2 -irc -b'''"@(){}[],+=&^%#;|''' rman'
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24. SQLCL
• sqlplus “replacement” from SQLdeveloper team
– history and editor
– auto-completion
– auto-formatting
• ansiconsole for col widths
• json, xml, csv etc
– tons of good stuff
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26. AAS VIEW
• my favourite real-time DB dashboard
• one-glance DB activity overview
• colour-coded
– red -> blocking, app, concurrency
– blue -> IO, missing indexes, etc
– green -> CPU, executing too much?
– other -> weird, take a look
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27. AAS VIEW
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28. WEB-ASH
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• simple and free
• reads v$session by default
• stores data in plain files
• lean javascript to display
http://datavirtualizer.com/web-ash-w-ash/
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29. MOATS
• top-like output that refreshes
• excellent overview
• needs small installation on database
• samples v$-views while running
• improved forks
– MOATS 2.0
– SQL Dashboard
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30. MOATS OUTPUT
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MOATS: The Mother Of All Tuning Scripts v1.0 by Adrian Billington & Tanel Poder
http://www.oracle-developer.net & http://www.e2sn.com
+ INSTANCE SUMMARY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Instance: KICKPUPPET | Execs/s: 581.6 | sParse/s: 60.0 | LIOs/s: 4989.5 | Read MB/s: 0.7 |
| Cur Time: 19-Nov 21:11:09 | Calls/s: 164.2 | hParse/s: 0.0 | PhyRD/s: 86.7 | Write MB/s: 1.6 |
| History: 0h 9m 45s | Commits/s: 50.3 | ccHits/s: 578.8 | PhyWR/s: 112.7 | Redo MB/s: 0.2 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ TOP SQL_ID (child#) -----+ TOP SESSIONS ---------+ + TOP WAITS -------------------------+ WAIT CLASS -+
| 29% | 7t0959msvyt5g (0) | 78,65 | | 29% | db file sequential read | User I/O |
| 14% | () | | | 29% | ON CPU | ON CPU |
| 14% | 147a57cxq3w5y (0) | 70 | | 14% | oracle thread bootstrap | Other |
| 14% | gh2g2tynpcpv1 (0) | 65 | | 14% | resmgr:cpu quantum | Scheduler |
| 14% | 4phvdvx32a3mf (0) | 73 | | 14% | db file parallel read | User I/O |
+--------------------------------------------------+ +--------------------------------------------------+
+ TOP SQL_ID ----+ PLAN_HASH_VALUE + SQL TEXT ---------------------------------------------------------------+
| 7t0959msvyt5g | 856749079 | SELECT ORDER_ID, ORDER_DATE, ORDER_MODE, CUSTOMER_ID, ORDER_STATUS, ORD |
| | | ER_TOTAL, SALES_REP_ID, PROMOTION_ID, WAREHOUSE_ID, DELIVERY_TYPE, COST |
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +
| 147a57cxq3w5y | 0 | BEGIN :1 := orderentry.browseproducts(:2 ,:3 ,:4 ); END; |
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +
| gh2g2tynpcpv1 | 0 | INSERT INTO CUSTOMERS ( CUSTOMER_ID , CUST_FIRST_NAME , CUST_LAST_NAME |
| | | , NLS_LANGUAGE , NLS_TERRITORY , CREDIT_LIMIT , CUST_EMAIL , ACCOUNT_MG |
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +
| 4phvdvx32a3mf | 0 | begin prvt_ilm.stopjobs(-1,true,true,:1); end; |
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +
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31. MOATS 2.0 OUTPUT
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32. SNAPPER
• realtime session monitor and drill-downs
• just one sqlscript to run
– no installation needed
• runs for sample period
– “snaps” v$session etc
– reports on diffs
• two modes
– “ash” for v$session
– stats for v$sesstat
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http://tech.e2sn.com/oracle-scripts-and-tools/session-snapper
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33. SNAPPER ARGUMENTS
• snapper ash 5 1 all
– mode can be ash, stat or custom column list
– seconds to run/sample
– number of runs
– “all” or filter on v$session columns
• sid=42
• username=brost
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34. SNAPPER DEFAULT MODE
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SQL> @snapper ash 5 1 all
Sampling SID all with interval 5 seconds, taking 1 snapshots...
-- Session Snapper v4.15 - by Tanel Poder ( http://blog.tanelpoder.com )
-- Enjoy the Most Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Script on the Planet! :)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Active% | INST | SQL_ID | SQL_CHILD | EVENT | WAIT_CLASS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10% | 1 | | 0 | db file async I/O submit | System I/O
10% | 1 | | | log file sync | Commit
7% | 1 | 5ckxyqfvu60pj | 0 | db file sequential read | User I/O
7% | 1 | | 0 | log file parallel write | System I/O
5% | 1 | | | ON CPU | ON CPU
5% | 1 | 3fw75k1snsddx | 0 | db file sequential read | User I/O
5% | 1 | | 0 | ON CPU | ON CPU
5% | 1 | c13sma6rkr27c | 0 | db file parallel read | User I/O
5% | 1 | gzhkw1qu6fwxm | 0 | ON CPU | ON CPU
5% | 1 | 0w2qpuc6u2zsp | 0 | ON CPU | ON CPU
-- End of ASH snap 1, end=2016-04-24 15:24:37, seconds=5, samples_taken=42
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35. AAS IN SNAPPER
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SQL> @snapper ash=wait_class 5 1 all
Sampling SID all with interval 5 seconds, taking 1 snapshots...
-- Session Snapper v4.11 - by Tanel Poder ( http://blog.tanelpoder.com )
-- Enjoy the Most Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Script on the Planet! 
-------------------------
Active% | WAIT_CLASS
-------------------------
44% | System I/O
19% | Commit
7% | Scheduler
7% | ON CPU
5% | User I/O
-- End of ASH snap 1, end=2014-11-19 16:23:06, seconds=5, samples_taken=43
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36. SNAPPER STATS MODE
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SQL> @snapper stats,gather=tw 15 1 sid=70
Sampling SID sid=70 with interval 15 seconds, taking 1 snapshots...
-- Session Snapper v4.11 BETA - by Tanel Poder ( http://blog.tanelpoder.com ) - Enjoy the Most Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Script on the Planet!
:)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SID, USERNAME , TYPE, STATISTIC , DELTA, HDELTA/SEC, %TIME, GRAPH , NUM_WAITS, WAITS/SEC, AVERAGES
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
70, SOE , TIME, repeated bind elapsed time , 300, 19.8us, .0%, [ ], , ,
70, SOE , TIME, parse time elapsed , 9272, 611.99us, .1%, [ ], , ,
70, SOE , TIME, PL/SQL execution elapsed time, 230999, 15.25ms, 1.5%, [# ], , ,
70, SOE , TIME, DB CPU , 569000, 37.56ms, 3.8%, [@ ], , ,
70, SOE , TIME, sql execute elapsed time , 1730975, 114.25ms, 11.4%, [## ], , ,
70, SOE , TIME, DB time , 2038543, 134.55ms, 13.5%, [## ], , , .88 % unaccounted
70, SOE , WAIT, log file sync , 235408, 15.54ms, 1.6%, [W ], 183, 12.08, 1.29ms average
70, SOE , WAIT, db file sequential read , 1123224, 74.14ms, 7.4%, [W ], 397, 26.2, 2.83ms average
70, SOE , WAIT, db file parallel read , 52763, 3.48ms, .3%, [ ], 3, .2, 17.59ms average
70, SOE , WAIT, latch: In memory undo latch , 499, 32.94us, .0%, [ ], 1, .07, 499us average
70, SOE , WAIT, resmgr:cpu quantum , 51794, 3.42ms, .3%, [ ], 3, .2, 17.26ms average
70, SOE , WAIT, SQL*Net message to client , 1458, 96.23us, .0%, [ ], 393, 25.94, 3.71us average
70, SOE , WAIT, SQL*Net message from client , 60177, 3.97ms, .4%, [ ], 393, 25.94, 153.12us average
70, SOE , WAIT, PL/SQL lock timer , 12918348, 852.66ms, 85.3%, [WWWWWWWWW ], 1328, 87.65, 9.73ms average
70, SOE , WAIT, events in waitclass Other , 960, 63.36us, .0%, [ ], 2, .13, 480us average
-- End of Stats snap 1, end=2014-11-20 08:04:39, seconds=15.2
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37. TOP SQL
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SQL> @snapper ash=sql_id+wait_class 15 1 user=soe
Sampling SID user=soe with interval 15 seconds, taking 1 snapshots...
-- Session Snapper v4.11 BETA - by Tanel Poder ( http://blog.tanelpoder.com )
-- Enjoy the Most Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Script on the Planet! :)
-------------------------------------------
Active% | SQL_ID | WAIT_CLASS
-------------------------------------------
14% | | Commit
5% | 7hk2m2702ua0g | User I/O
4% | 5ckxyqfvu60pj | User I/O
3% | 7t0959msvyt5g | User I/O
3% | gh2g2tynpcpv1 | User I/O
2% | 0w2qpuc6u2zsp | Scheduler
2% | g81cbrq5yamf5 | User I/O
2% | 7ws837zynp1zv | User I/O
2% | f7rxuxzt64k87 | User I/O
2% | 1qf3b7a46jm3u | User I/O
-- End of ASH snap 1, end=2014-11-20 06:14:42, seconds=15, samples_taken=100
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38. SQLDEVELOPER
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39. SQLDEVELOPER
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40. HISTORIC PERFORMANCE
• moats, snapper etc only sample when running
• EE (+diag/tuning) has ASH and AWR
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41. AWR REPORTS -> STATSPACK
• good for a high-level overview
• AWR has a bit more “stuff” than statspack
• AWR is setup automatically (60min snaps)
– be mindful of averages
• but AWR needs EE and diag&tuning pack
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42. STATSPACK IN 12C
• no problem in non-CDB
• with multitenant would make most sense in CDB
– but not really supported due to common user c#...
• there is a nasty and unsupported workaround
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https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/12c-statspack-hack/
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43. ORASASH
• does pretty much what ASH does (but for free)
• sample and store information from v$-views
• mostly compatible with EE ASH
– ashmon
– ashmasters etc
• stores data from multiple sources in repo db
– minimal footprint in source, only view and dblink
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http://pioro.github.io/orasash/
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44. SQLT
• oracle supported scripts
• needs a schema an installation in db
– (this is annoying)
• will gather *everything* about a single SQL
– option to use diag&tuning
• output is one zipped html archive
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Metalink Doc id 215187.1
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45. SQLD360
• sql scope (just like SQLT)
• needs no installation
• one zipfile including html output
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http://mauro-pagano.com/2015/02/16/sqld360-sql-diagnostics-collection-made-faster/
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46. SQLD SCREENSHOTS
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47. SQLD SCREENSHOTS
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48. SQLD INCLUDES SQL
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SELECT MIN(a.snap_id) snap_id,
TO_CHAR(a.begin_interval_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI') begin_time,
TO_CHAR(a.end_interval_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI') end_time,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.elapsed_time_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) elapsed_time,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.cpu_time_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) cpu_time,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.iowait_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) iowait,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.clwait_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) clwait,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.apwait_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) apwait,
NVL(TRUNC(SUM(b.ccwait_total/NVL(NULLIF(executions_total,0),1)/1e6),3),0) ccwait
FROM (SELECT snap_id, instance_number, elapsed_time_total, cpu_time_total,
iowait_total, clwait_total, apwait_total, ccwait_total, executions_total
FROM dba_hist_sqlstat
WHERE sql_id = 'gm9dkz4u1hwfv') b,
(SELECT snap_id, instance_number, begin_interval_time, end_interval_time
FROM dba_hist_snapshot
WHERE snap_id BETWEEN 0 AND 166142) a
WHERE a.snap_id = b.snap_id(+)
AND a.instance_number = b.instance_number(+)
AND 'Y' = 'Y'
AND a.instance_number = a.instance_number
GROUP BY
TO_CHAR(a.begin_interval_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI'),
TO_CHAR(a.end_interval_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI')
ORDER BY
TO_CHAR(a.end_interval_time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI');
1850 rows selected.
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49. EDB360
• database scope
• no installation needed!
– just run a sqlfile
• creates one zipfile with html for offline viewing
– also AWR etc
• T | D | N control for access packs
• convenient: graphs
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http://www.enkitec.com/products/edb360
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50. EDB SCREENSHOTS
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51. TUNAS360
• best of sqld and snapper
• samples v$-views for period
– works without AWR/ASH license!
• produces output like sqld
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52. TUNAS SCREENSHOTS
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53. TUNAS SCREENSHOTS
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54. GOOD OLD 10046 TRACE
• guaranteed to catch everything (unlike sampling)
– why not turn on instance-wide?
• overhead vs usefulness?
• no license needed at all
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55. READING TRACEFILES
• sqldeveloper
• trcanlzr
– needs installing but now also part of SQLT
• Kyle Hailey’s script
– https://github.com/khailey/oracle_trace_parsing/
• Chris Antognini’s script
– https://antognini.ch/downloads/top2/chapter03/tvdxtat
_40beta10_20140630.zip
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56. REVIEW
• make sqlplus great
again
– rlsqlplus
– sqlcl
• real-time analysis
– snapper
– moats
– web-ash
– sqldeveloper instance
viewer
– TUNAs360
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• historical analysis
– Orasash / S-ASH
– statspack
– SQLT
– eDB360
– sqld360
• 10046 tracing
– raw
– various analyzers
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@brost
http://www.pythian.com/blog
rost@pythian.com
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