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Daily Archives Friday, May 2008

Stuff That Just Works

I’ve been so very busy lately, but not with bloggable activity. This week has been slow on Mix news; ENTP is putting the finishing touches on a big feature, and we did deploy a few bug fixes.
I did finally catch up on feed reading from a month ago, and a post from friend of the [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Best Practices

This is a note that I wrote for the Northern California Oracle User Group a few months ago. It was published in the February issue of the magazine in the section “Ask the Oracles”, an interesting and innovative section that I first contributed to in August 2006 with a note on hints.
The topic under discussion [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

May 28 seminar, Minneapolis

Today I’m making preparations for another public event: this one is a one-day Performance Seminar I’ll conduct in the Minneapolis area for Speak-Tech on May 28. In the morning, I’ll do a “Why you can’t see your real performance problems” session, and i…

Posted 16 May 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rapid development using OBI EE (and what about the Data Warehouse?)

We are often told that one of the benefit of OBI EE is the speed and ease of development. Data sources can easily be added into the system, users can then quickly build queries and the results are easy to distribute. While I completely support this, to me this leaves a few questions when you [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Jon Mead § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Bug in 11g AWR report

Post 11g upgrade, one of the first things I noticed was in the AWR reports.
In the Instance Efficiency Percentages, the “Parse CPU to Parse Elapsd %” was a less than impressive “0.00″. I’ve become accustomed to this being low in reports here, but not that low .
This has been confirmed as a new bug [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † dombrooks § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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Posted 16 May 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Work Could be More Funner

At Web 2.0 Expo about a month ago, Rich, Paul and I all attended a fascinating session called “Children of Flickr: Making the Massively Multiplayer Social Web“. Aside from being interesting, it reenergized me on my quest to make work more fun.
Then, daily operational stuff intervened. I managed to rush some thoughts onto virtual paper, [...]

Posted 16 May 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °