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David Kurtz
Full Name
ACE Director
Top Level Details
Job Role
Consultant
Company
Go-Faster Consultancy
Country
United Kingdom
Top Expertise
Performance
Focus Area
Database
About David
David is a consultant specializing in system performance tuning. He started working with the Oracle database in 1989 as a developer. He is also known as an expert in the PeopleSoft field. He worked for PeopleSoft UK and then as an independent consultant providing performance consultancy, mostly to PeopleSoft customers. He is the author of 'PeopleSoft for the Oracle DBA', and blogs about PeopleSoft & Oracle. He has been involved with the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) for many years, presenting regularly at meetings and conferences. He formerly served as a UKOUG SIG chair and then director. He is an Oracle ACE Director and member of the Oak Table.
Expertises
Performance
Database
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
PeopleSoft
Home Page
http://www.go-faster.co.uk
Oracle Community
https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/user/david-kurtz2
Links
Latest Contributions
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Managing Ad Hoc PS/Queries in PeopleSoft
Jan 06, 2026 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
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Instrumentation! Instrumentation! Instrumentation!
Nov 30, 2025 - Presentation - in-person or virtual - UKOUG 2025
Base Database Service
Database 26ai
Database 19c
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Partition Pruning/Elimination on Reference Partitioned Tables
Sep 02, 2025 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
Oracle Partitioning
Database 19c
Database
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Determining Optimal Index Key Compression Length
Jul 28, 2025 - Blog post -
Prefix Compression
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Deadlock within DML statements
Jul 01, 2025 - Blog post -
Base Database Service
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Optimising Journal Line Queries: 5. Conclusion
Jun 30, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
Optimizer
PeopleSoft ERP
PeopleSoft
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Optimising Journal Line Queries: 4. Compression
Jun 27, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft ERP
Basic Table Compression
Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC)
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
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Optimising Journal Line Queries: 3. Partitioning
Jun 26, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft ERP
Oracle Partitioning
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
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Optimising Journal Line Queries: 2. Exadata System Statistics
Jun 24, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft ERP
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
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Optimising Journal Line Queries: 1. Problem Statement
Jun 23, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft ERP
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
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Logging Run Controls and Bind Variables for Scheduled PS/Queries
May 08, 2025 - Blog post -
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
SQL Quarantine
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Configuring SQL Developer to Authenticate Via Kerberos
May 05, 2025 - Blog post -
SQL Developer
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Locally Partitioned Unique Indexes on Reference Partitioned Tables
Mar 18, 2025 - Blog post -
Oracle Partitioning
Database 19c
Database
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A Resource Manager CPU Time Limit for PS/Queries Executed On-line in the PIA
Mar 06, 2025 - Blog post -
Database Resource Manager
SQL Quarantine
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft PeopleTools
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SQL Quarantine Behaviour When the Same SQL Executes in Different Resource Manager Consumer Groups With Different CPU Time Limits
Mar 04, 2025 - Blog post -
Database 19c
Database Resource Manager
SQL Quarantine
Exadata
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