I am one of the lucky 25 winners of the first ever Oracle OpenWorld Suggest a Session on Mix. I would like to thank everyone who voted for my session which is now live on the Schedule Builder. Here are the details:
Session ID: S3301711
Title: Simple Tips to Quickly Find Answers to Your Oracle-Related Questions and [...]
So, I promised to blog Rich’s UI mockups for the OpenSocial UI changes we’re planning, and even though posts about what we actually do here at the ‘Lab get way less traffic and comments than fun posts about which O/S would win in a fight, I’m keeping that promise.
Rich has made a lot of progress. [...]
This summer Idaho has had the loveliest profusion of wildflowers I’ve ever seen, the product of a healthy snow pack, full reservoirs and a late spring. Happily enough, many wildflowers have seeded themselves in my rock garden, which is far…
I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:
Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
Cheers
Tim…
Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective.
Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others:
Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing programs on cassette tapes! How many of you Web 2.0 kiddies can say that?
Early to mid 90s: had an [...]
I’ve been having a little trouble with my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. Every few minutes the screen would go really dim, like it was in power save mode. Switching it to standby and back or remote desktoping to it would kick it back into gear, but that’s not exactly helpful.
Yesterday I rang Dell to see [...]
Or at least that’s what Google Translate says “it’s a bug” means in Portuguese.
So, maybe you noticed recently that this blog and others produced a feed item or a couple called “!$title$!”. I believe this is a bug associated with WordPress 2.6 because the timing coincided with our upgrade to 2.6.
Plus, several blogs whose feeds [...]
In the end, my 10.2.0.4 SGA problem ended up being the _db_block_cache_protect parameter. Seems as though setting that parameter in 10.2.0.4 maps the SGA to /tmp/shm instead of real memory. The immediate cause of my:
ORA-27102: out of memory
Linux-x86_64 Error: 28: No space left on device
was that I didn’t have enough space mounted at /tmp/shm. When I did allocate enough space, I got an ORA-
Comments have been awfully quiet lately. I’m guilty of talking too much about work-related stuff and not enough about iPhones and Twitter.
My bad. Let’s remedy that.
Rich asked me recently how my move to Ubuntu was going. It’s been almost a month, and he says he has a vested interest in keeping me happy with it. [...]
There is a common thread in driving change. No matter what you are working towards, or where you are doing it - change is hard. You’ll run into challenges on time, budget, resources, personalities, vision, objectives, and more. Sometimes you’ll want to throw in the towel. We have all had those [...]