http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1108985 It appears to be an interesting bug in some versions of Oracle 10g, on Linux 2.6.x oracle process goes in loop doing times() system call if machine uptime < 199 days. Nice!!! / Oracle refs are bug 4612267 and 5867987 ) . The solution is to reboot.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fplakhov.livejournal.com%2F144249.html%3Fthread%3D2563193%23t2563193&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8 Google translate of 2 posts in Russian section of LJ about route costs look up problem commonly faced by telephony operators
http://diznix.com/dizwell/archives/153 Full Text Search benchmark, Oracle vs Postgres, on 2x Quad core Xeon, 8G RAM, 2 SSDs x RAID 1. Pg is being slightly faster when query contains several words, once word count increases, oracle leaps ahead (suggesting a more mature FTS implementation)
http://blogs.nologin.es/slopez/archives/17-Benchmarking-Databases-I.-Volatile-Storage..html PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchmark results w/out permissions
http://www.orafaq.com/faqopq.htm some faq on oracle’s parallel query processing