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Daily Archives Monday, July 2008

My Oracle Open World Schedule

Hey folks, For anyone attending Oracle Open World this year, here is my schedule of presentations: Session ID: S300184 Session Title: Weird PL/SQL Track: Oracle Develop: Database Room: Golden Gate C3 Date: 2008-09-21 Start Time: 15:45 Session…

Posted 21 July 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

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LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

As you might know, last week I published an entry saying that I was looking for a job. I have to say I got a great response, both here on the blog and direct emails. I got great

Posted 21 July 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Congratulations to the OpenWorld Session Winners

It’s finally official.
The winning sessions have been announced over at the OpenWorld blog. Congrats to the winners. The Events team selected the top 25 vote-getters, and Lisa Stuart has already begun notifying the submitters via Mix.
Here are the winners ordered by number of votes. I’ve included links to the bloggers I know.

Security: Writing Custom Authentication [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

What’s new in Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.2.0.4

Last week I mentioned that the Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.2.0.4 patchset was out for Linux and Windows; but what I did not mention what was in it! So to make amends here are a few of the highlights.
Firstly, this is not just a bug-fix release, even though there over 100 fixes listed in the patch [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 † Peter Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW Mix Session Selections Announced

I just saw this blog posting indicating that one of my session suggestions for OOW (So, you want to be an Oracle ACE?) was selected for presentation at the conference. Thanks to everyone that voted (for any session, but especially this one)–I look forward to seeing you there at the session too (especially the ACEs [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

TNS Listener Configuration for Oracle RAC

I’ve been to more than one RAC customer site and seen several different ways to misconfigure the listeners for a RAC cluster. This post describes how I usually configure the listeners and their associated instance parameters normally. This really has nothing to do with TAF or connection load balancing, those those features may not work [...]

Posted 21 July 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Presenting at VOUG 2008 - Partitioning & SQL Developer

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I will be presenting at the Virginia Oracle User Group (VOUG) user conference on Oct 9 & 10. The conference is being held at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, VA. It looks like it will be a good conference with plenty of good speakers. Steven Feuerstein is the keynote speaker. I’m not sure how many separate tr

Posted 21 July 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °