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Daily Archives Wednesday, May 2008

Index Efficiency

I was looking for an old posting on the Oracle newsgroup recently, when I found a set of posts about talked about measuring the effectiveness of rebuilding some indexes.
I had contributed by pointing to my website where I have a script that demonstrates how to get some detailed information about how well the space in [...]

Posted 14 May 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Happy Birthday!

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UK Oracle User Group - and we have a target of 430 presentations covering the many different faces of Oracle’s presence in the IT and business world.
The call for papers has just gone out, with a closing date of May 9th - so if you want to [...]

Posted 14 May 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Random Twitter Effects

Hard to believe I haven’t blogged about Twitter in a while. Like New Web in general, Twitter has reached that cusp where early adopters are calling it “established” and new people are kicking the tires.
Lots of them.
The recent departure of Blaine Cook, Twitter’s former chief architect, could mean any number of things. Many speculate that [...]

Posted 14 May 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

“Clinton exposes Obama’s vulnerability: white voters” DUH!

Ran across the following article in USA Today, May 13, 2008 - which means of course that I was staying in a hotel. The Forum: Clinton exposes Obama’s vulnerability: white votersAnd my reaction? Well, duh….I have to admit that I am surprised and inspi…

Posted 14 May 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

drop all objects

warning: the script below is destructive and not 100% safe
A question was posted on the french forums of developez.net about how to drop all objects of an user. The drop user toto cascade; followed by create user toto identified by tott; was suggested as an easy answer, but I commented that create user must re-grant [...]

Posted 14 May 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Vote for APEX, somebody gets worried


Posted 14 May 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °