Daily Archives Wednesday, May 2008

3 Years and 531 Posts

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I just realized my 3 year anniversary on ITToolbox past me by on 3/18/08. I think I noticed and was going to post something about it but then I guess something else caught my attention. This post is #531. I have made 11084 posts of some sort or another. In a way it seems like I’ve been doing this a lot longer and in another way it seems like I just started.

I don’t know how ma

You want to be an Oracle ACE?

The Oracle ACE program is one way that Oracle recognizes community members that make significant contributions to the Oracle community through blogging, forum participation, user group presentations, and other similar volunteering activities. As one of the Oracle ACE Directors, I have tried to promote the program by raising awareness of its existence and the importance [...]

Testing a No-statistics Environment: Part II

Following on from the previous post, a little glitch in the plans: the instance appeared to crash late last night during the load. Hopefully not some exotic bug associated with dynamic sampling.
I modified the delete-and-lock strategy yesterday after remembering that we have a number of indexes that are created with the “compute statistics” option. Since DBMS_STATS.LOCK_TABLE_STATS is [...]

Making Waves With Wavemaker

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

Wavemaker is an Open Source GUI builder that is based on Spring, Hibernate and the Dojo toolkit. The company that produces the software, Wavemaker Software, is a new partner with EnterpriseDB. With that in mind, I decided to start playing with the tool to see how easy it is to use and how far it can go.

To

Who wants to SCUBA pre-OOW08?

I’m thinking of organizing a 2-tank (or more) scuba dive down in Monterrey, California, a little ways south of SF for the weekend prior to OOW 08. You can’t really scuba in San Francisco Bay–not much there, murky, ships, etc. In Monterrey, it’s a whole different story and there are many dive operators and charters [...]