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Quotes from Our Customers
The Hotsos Clinic was unquestionably the best technical course I have ever taken. My next best class was probably a week I spent with C. J. Date back around 1983.
—Andrew Zitelli, Thales-Raytheon Systems
The day after I returned to work from the Hotsos Clinic, I reduced the response time of a query from 44 minutes to 0.41 seconds. The Clinic completely changed my view of tuning the database.
—Nagesh Pillarisetti, Schaumburg Illinois
The first time I used it, Hotsos Profiler helped me reduce the run time of one query from 6½ hours to less than 11 seconds.
—Guðmundur Jósepsson, Index Software Solutions & Consulting
Using the diagnostic method I learned in the Hotsos Clinic, I fixed an I/O configuration problem that improved the run time of a conversion process from 23 days to just 5 hours.
—Mark Strickland, Seattle Washington
Hotsos Symposium was by far the best conference I have been to. Period. I can't believe it could be better than last year, but it was.
—Wolfgang Breitling, Centrex Consulting
Cary Millsap and his colleagues at Hotsos are world-class Oracle system performance talent.
—Ray Lane, former President and COO of Oracle Corporation
Hotsos Laredo has helped us find and fix SQL performance issues before shipping software upgrades to our customers, saving us untold support hours.
—John Schmidt, McKesson Corporation
Honesty. Scientific depth. Realism. Hotsos has deep, practical, empirical knowledge about Oracle performance.
—Charles Howard, San Francisco, California
Anyone interested in performance optimization must take Hotsos's Performance Diagnosis 101 course. It provides the theoretical background and techniques vital to being an efficient problem solver.
—Daniel Fink, Broomfield, Colorado
Hotsos can explain a highly technical subject matter [Oracle performance], inject some science, and make it understandable to a layman.
—Michael Sit, San Francisco, California
Using the techniques I learned in the Hotsos Clinic, we were able to improve performance of Oracle's 11i Order Entry Purge routine from 100 orders in 2 hours to a more acceptable 100 orders per minute.
—Chris Harvey, Jostens, Inc.
I paid out of my pocket and used vacation days to go to the Hotsos Performance Diagnosis 101 course. It is well worth it.
—Venu Potluri, New York City
Hotsos Symposium was, without a doubt, the best Oracle conference I've ever attended.
—Terry Sutton, Database Specialists, Inc.
Got a call from a user this week about a query that was taking forever. Remembering my PD101 notes, I turned on extended SQL trace in his session by using set_ev (didn't know how to do that until last week!), traced him, and turned his almost 19-minute query into 90 seconds.
—Stephen Wales, Magna, Utah
Your Hotsos Profiler is awesome! Without the Profiler, the root cause of our performance problem was difficult to identify. But within 1 minute of looking at our Hotsos Profiler output, we were able to reduce a job's duration from 3 hours to 43 seconds.
—Lon White, City of Chandler, Arizona
Before [the Hotsos PD101 course], I was afraid to look at a trace file. Now, I can't wait.
—Sylvain Bélanger, Gatineau, Québec
The Hotsos Profiler report is simply amazing! 800 megabytes has never looked simpler.
—Kevin MacDonald, Toronto
