About John Goodhue

John Goodhue is an Oracle DBA with nine years of high-level Oracle experience on Solaris, HPUX, AIX and Windows NT/2000. He was a mainframe systems engineer and DBA for ten years before that.

Goodhue led a very successful application tuning effort for Transport America, an Eagan, MN trucking company. Using standard Oracle tools and his own deep understanding of Oracle, Goodhue determined that the system was swamped by disk I/O. Working with the developers, the team reduced physical reads by 78% at the same time trucks/drivers on the new system increased from 10% to 100%. The system was fully operational in less than two months with room for growth. The application did not have to go through a long rearchitecting, it just had to be tuned.

Goodhue managed the databases of Priceline.com’s Data Warehouse during a year when they grew 5% a week. He brought stability to a chaotic environment of failed jobs, reports that ran forever, unscheduled outages and maddeningly slow response. He tuned bad queries and instituted controls to prevent users from crashing or slowing production.

Goodhue ran the Fingerhut catalog order entry system, one of the largest, busiest and most complex OLTP databases in the world. It was a 500 gig database with up to 2000 simultaneous connections running under Oracle Parallel Server and Oracle Multi-threaded Server.

Goodhue has proved himself effective in very different environments and corporate cultures. He moved easily from an oil refinery to a pure internet company and back to a trucking company. He has performed in different roles; production support DBA, Data Warehouse DBA and Development DBA on three releases of Oracle on four different platforms.