Videos are an easy way to learn more about Method R.
The Method R Origin Story
Duration: 11:54This week, I told the story of how Jeff Holt and I drew inspiration from Jon Bentley, Eli Goldratt, and Anjo Kolk to build…
Oracle Microseconds
Duration: 13:07Back in the old days before Oracle 11gR2, part of my research about Oracle trace data was to use the strace operating system utility…
Unit Arithmetic
Duration: 14:19One of the tasks that we're called upon to execute upon occasion is converting a quantity from one unit to another. For example, if…
Blame Oracle, Part 2
Duration: 15:50Last week’s show generated a lot of after-show discussion, so this week, we picked up right where we left off. We discussed Oracle’s excellent…
Blame Oracle
Duration: 11:08It seems like no matter what the problem is, Oracle gets the blame. There are lots of reasons, some legitimate, some not. Here’s one…
A Design Story
Duration: 10:17We make a big deal out of our Method R Workbench being able to process thousands of trace files with ease. But our 9.2.4…
On Sampled Data
Duration: 7:15Whenever the data you see can be explained by two or more different situations, you either have to start guessing, or you need more…
A Brain Hack
Duration: 9:11Almost 30 years ago, I learned a brain hack on a ropes course that has helped teams I've been on do some amazing things.…
On Calm
Duration: 13:45People are smarter when they're calm. In today's episode, Cary Millsap talks about some of the calm-down tools he learned from his early career…
DBMS_USERDIAG
Duration: 14:17With the release of Oracle Database 23c Free, we've found a new package that the Oracle trace enthusiast will find interesting. It's not documented…
The Go/No-Go Matrix
Duration: 20:15Have you ever heard the adage, “No experiment is a bad experiment—even in a failed experiment, at least you learn what doesn’t work.” Well,…
"Common Sense"
Duration: 16:52Episode 8’s revelation that Dan Weinberger makes his award-winning deli a little bit "intentionally uncomfortable" made me think of other experiences in life where…
Dan Weinberger
Duration: 26:45So, to optimize your deli, you might need to make it intentionally uncomfortable. Oh, and a pandemic improves your business. Not just a little…
Gummi Jósepsson
Duration: 24:41Gummi Jósepsson has been optimizing applications since 1999. In today's Fill the Glass, he tells four of my favorite war stories:
Database-Wide Tracing
Duration: 27:38You want to trace a whole database?! Sends shivers down your spine, right? Wouldn't the measurement intrusion effect overwhelm you? And what would you…
Mogens Nørgaard
Duration: 25:01How do you build a globally-renowned team? And not just once, but over and over again? And not just your team at work, but…
Nancy Spafford
Duration: 22:41This week, I welcomed a special guest, my friend Nancy Spafford. Nancy is the database team lead at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at…
"Tracing Oracle" package definitions
Duration: 20:38Today, Cary talks about tracing Oracle Autonomous Databases and his treatment of the topic in the upcoming “Tracing Oracle” book. He also shows progress…
GitHub project "tracing-oracle"
Duration: 22:45Cary talks about the GitHub repository behind the upcoming book called “Tracing Oracle.”
Ask Me Anything
Duration: 22:09Today, Cary Millsap (method-r.com) hosted the inaugural episode of "Fill the Glass." Today's episode was an ask-me-anything session. Cary covered topics including how to…
Locale Code
Duration: 0:55People format numbers differently in different regions around the world. What looks normal to an analyst in Finland looks unusual to an analyst in…
Connection Pools
Duration: 2:22The Method R Workbench is so good at handling connection pool trace data that I can explain and demonstrate the whole workflow in just…
The Pig Nose
Duration: 1:26The "pig nose" is our pause button. It allows you to control when our profiler executes in the file loading process. It turns out…
Which File to Open Next?
Duration: 1:04When you’re just working with one trace file at a time, it’s obvious which profile to open next: it’s the one you just created.…
The "Show mrprof details" Button
Duration: 1:33Sometimes you want to see just the relevant time consumers. But sometimes, you want to see everything. Method R Workbench lets you do whichever…
The "Automatic Transmission"
Duration: 1:37When you click to open a profile report, if the Workbench determines that a change you’ve made would alter the content of your report,…
Automatically Opening Profiles
Duration: 1:44Sometimes, when you load files into Method R Workbench, the profile reports spring open automatically in a browser window. And sometimes they don’t. Why is…
Method R Software Workflow
Duration: 1:55Method R Trace and Method R Workbench make it easy to work with Oracle trace files. Method R Trace creates trace files on your…
The Method R Trace trace file collector for Oracle SQL Developer
Duration: 2:28Method R Trace is our unbelievably easy, automatic, secure, zero-click trace file collector for Oracle SQL Developer.
Version 9—A Whole New Way to See Oracle® Performance
Duration: 5:37This is the official video for our Method R Workbench version 9 release. Learn how Workbench 9 can help you see the future, understand…
The Pesky, Intermittent Performance Problem
Duration: 4:58Cary Millsap tells a story about how you can use Method R Workbench to diagnose a pesky, intermittent Oracle performance problem.
Opening HTML Files Automatically ...Or Not
Duration: 2:47This video shows why you might not want Method R Workbench to open HTML files for you automatically.
Seven Workflows Using Oracle SQL Developer
Duration: 1:55This video shows seven common workflows that we use when we generate Oracle extended SQL trace files in Oracle SQL Developer and then process…
The Method R Profiling Ecosystem
Duration: 1:04:51What is it like to use Method R software? In this video presentation, Cary Millsap shows how to use Method R software (the Method…
Why You Need a Profiler for Oracle
Duration: 4:07This video explains why you need a profiler for Oracle-based software application systems. For more information, visit https://method-r.com/software.
Method R Trace
Duration: 1:52Method R Trace is a zero-click trace file collector for Oracle SQL Developer. Every time you execute SQL or PL/SQL from your SQL Developer…
Profiler version 6 upgrade
Duration: 3:01A sneak preview at the new features of the Method R Profiler version 6 upgrade, our biggest Profiler release ever. Coming soon!