Merida -> Chichen-Itza -> Merida

Up very early yet again with a quick dash to the loo for Andy and went out to the community area of the hostel for our ‘free breakfast’ of toast and coffee. We then sorted ourselves out for the day trip to Chichen Itza. The coach took about 2 hours.…

Cancun -> Merida

Up early again and peered outside, still overcast and very windy. Had great breakfast again and then went to check our mail at internet café. Back to Hotel, checked out and headed off to get the bus to Merida. Four hours later we made it and then walked, what seemed…

Cancun

Woke up early (2am local time) as my body was still in UK time. Went back to sleep and then woke up again at 7.15. Showered, phones STA to complain and had breakfast which was great – re-fried beans, tacos, scrambled eggs and bacon. Scrum. Then left to find an…

London -> Dallas -> Cancun (Mexico)

Up at 5am to catch the tube from Pheebs’ house to Heathrow. Checking in was a nightmare, the queues were huge and just about made the plane! 10 hours later we made Dallas Fort Worth for a 3 hour transfer wait. Had a couple of beers and some food before…

Oracle parallel query performance on a T5140

Being an engineer it’s always a good feeling getting to the bottom of a problem and none so as this one. Take a T5140, create a 3 way RAID 0 LUN using the internal disks and stick Oracle on top so you can do something useful with it for…