Daily Archives Wednesday, July 2008

State of the Database 2008: Vertica, Part 1

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I’ve dropped off this topic for a while but I want to pick it back up before 2009 gets here. ;-) I’m changing my approach a bit. In an effort to be as fair and accurate as possible, I will be discussing the database and company (where that applies) with the company that produces the database. I’ll revisit my earlier posts when I have a chance to talk

State of the Database 2008: Vertica, Part 1

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

I’ve dropped off this topic for a while but I want to pick it back up before 2009 gets here. ;-) I’m changing my approach a bit. In an effort to be as fair and accurate as possible, I will be discussing the database and company (where that applies) with the company that produces the database. I’ll revisit my earlier posts when I have a chance to talk

Voting Lessons Learned

Now that the suggest a session for OpenWorld campaign has ended, it’s time to reflect on what we learned.

First off, thanks to everyone who submitted a session idea. There were 281 submitted before the deadline, and someone even figured out how to create a session after we closed the nomination form. Bonus points for ingenuity.
Now [...]

Scheduler Enhancements in 11g…

The latest article in my OCP revision notes has surfaced:

Scheduler Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

The detached and lightweight jobs look fine, but I’m not totally happy with the remote external jobs. I don’t think they quite live up to their promise, and they seem like a security issue waiting to happen. I assume [...]

I walked 1.27 Miles to My Gate at Dulles

This week a colleague (Chris Beck) and I flew to Boston to meet with a customer. Those of you familiar with Washing Dulles Airport know that you can walk to the “B” gates now via an underground tunnel.  We were at gate B64, which is in a new section of the B gates and one [...]

How to get mail working with Apex packed with 11g ..

Hi , Recently i installed 11g db on one of my systems ,as it comes with APEX i thought to move my apex app(which were in 10g) to the same ………when i moved my apps , i got everything working…

New Database Taglines

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

Do you know what a tag line is? It’s those nifty phrases that come after a product or brand to get your attention. Like “Quality is job 1″ or “Have it your way”. Some of those tag lines really become part of the universal meme. Here are a few tag lines I’d like to see.

Oracle - Expensive. Because we can be.

Oracle - If it’s not part of

New Database Taglines

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

Do you know what a tag line is? It’s those nifty phrases that come after a product or brand to get your attention. Like “Quality is job 1″ or “Have it your way”. Some of those tag lines really become part of the universal meme. Here are a few tag lines I’d like to see.

Oracle - Expensive. Because we can be.

Oracle - If it’s not part of

The 10.2.0.4 16g Solution

If you’ve been following along, I’ve had quite a tough time with 16GB SGAs on 10.2.0.4. With help from Kevin Closson and Oracle Support, we found that the init.ora parameters “_db_block_cache_protect=true”, “_db_block_check_for_debug=true”, and “db_bl…