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Archive of entries posted on February 2012

Oracle Select the top 5 queries

Here are one sql script that I found some time back. This will be listing the top 5 SQL queries in Oracle. SET linesize 300 SET PAGESIZE 200 select * from (select sql_text, sql_id, elapsed_time, cpu_time, user_io_wait_time from sys.v_$sqlarea order by 5 desc) where rownum < 6; quit; Related articles SQL Fiddle (thinkvitamin.com) New Oracle [...]

Check out all the colors on you X window system.

If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel. You will need to [...]

glances – Get a glimpse of the whole system

You would have used top at some point of time. Did you not wish that instead of just the processes it list all the vital statistics of the system as a whole. How good it would be to see the Memory, Net, Processes and Disk usage on the same screen. Well then you should take [...]