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Daily Archives Friday, May 2008

Suggest a Session Topic for OpenWorld

Last night, as promised, Rich deployed some new stuff built by ENTP, right before they headed to a midnight Iron Man showing. On a side note, is he really a superhero?
The shiny new feature is Suggest a Session. If you have an idea for a session you’d like to attend or present, bounce over to [...]

Posted 02 May 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

A Business Case For Cloud Databases

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I think the concept of cloud computing and cloud storage has been bandied about long enough that most people get it and they get the business case. I’m not sure people get the use for databases in the cloud.

If you are completely unfamiliar with the term “cloud computing”, check out the Wikipedia cloud entry. As you ca

Posted 02 May 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rules for Hinting

I’ve written several notes about hinting, such as:

Hints again: do you know what they really mean.
Ignoring hints: new DDL makes old hints “ignorable”.
Full HInting: the difficulty of getting it right.
qb_name: a really important hint introduced in 10g
push_subq: how upgrades can stop hints working.

In fact, by using at the “Select Category” list to the right, I [...]

Posted 02 May 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °