It's been a while since the MySQL Management Plug-in 0.42 was released. Since then, I quietly updated it to version 1.0. The changes were very few; the biggest news was that the plug-in was certified by Oracle and added to OTN Oracle 10g Grid Control Extensions Exchange (see at the bottom).I think the ne

Last week, I was at the NetApp office in North Sydney for the presentation on

Pythian DBA's have daily reports for each monitored database and some of the components are using charts to visualize the data. I'm a big fan of charts myself (when applied appropriately) and want to show how you can generate simple charts directly from the database. You'd be very surprised how easy it can be done from *any* database without installing any additional software or configuring something special.This method is not limited to Oracle by any means -- use it with MySQL, SQL Server or any other database as well as without a database -- yes, visualize your sar data now!In this example, we will plot a pie diagram with Oracle tablespaces. This would be very handy when you are starting to analyze the space allocation for a database. Here is the end result of the report for my Grid Control repository test database:

I don't want to post the link to this (perhaps, it was left public unintentional?) but here is what I stumbled upon recently. This is a log of production maintenance of IT systems in Perth, Western Australia (as far as I could say):Good idea but