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Sorted Hash Clusters

Towards the end of April, I published a note about manual optimisation,  and mentioned in one of the comments (#19) that as part of the discussion of the (slightly suspect) mechanism I had introduced I would eventually get around to talking about sorted hash clusters. So I’ve finally managed to make a start.
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Posted 13 July 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Interesting notes

This (Oracle-related) blog site caught my eye a few days ago. There isn’t much on it at present, but what’s there is worth reading, so I thought I’d post a pointer to it for a few days.
 Updated 13th July.  Randolf Geist has started to work his way through the test scripts that I supplied with [...]

Posted 13 July 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

chance meeting with man in Gents toilet


Posted 13 July 2008 † admin § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

New Home for Oracle iPhone Stuff

About a year ago, I bought my wife an iPhone and then soon broke down and bought myself one. Since then, I’ve blogged several times about the little gadget, including a few posts on how it works for me as a work tool.

A large percentage of the traffic on this blog is due to iPhone [...]

Posted 13 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Hurry up and Vote!

Voting for suggested sessions for OpenWorld in September ends today over on Mix.
I can’t tell you exactly what time it will end. Being Sunday and all, Rich is probably busy having a weekend, but it will end today.

If you haven’t voted yet, head over and browse the list of sessions. Participation has been outstanding; we’ve [...]

Posted 13 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX at OOW ‘08 - Sunday


Posted 13 July 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

ACID vs BASE

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I’m just thinking out loud here. If you don’t like technical ramblings, don’t continue reading.

Ok, we all know what ACID is right? In databases I mean, not at woodstock. ;-) Don’t take the brown ACID!

  • Atomicity - all parts of a transaction succeed or none of then succeed. Integrity.
  • Consistency - Nothing in your trans

Posted 13 July 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °