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Daily Archives Thursday, July 2008

Will the Optimizer development team be at Oracle Open World?

The largest gathering of Oracle customers, partners, developers, and technology enthusiasts will happen in September when Oracle will host its annual user conference Open World in San Francisco and the Optimizer development group will be there! You wil…

Posted 24 July 2008 † Optimizer Development Group § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle AppsLab 2008-07-24 22:37:51

So, Noel Portugal is at it again.
He has expanded his pet project, OraTweet, to include OraTweetBot, which he says is:
. . . an XMPP/Jabber bot built with Java that will listen for tweets and post them to Twitter or to a database.
I never use the XMPP/IM Twitter integration, but I know it’s more popular than [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

I Know Nothing About Data Warehouse Appliances and Now, So Won’t You - Part IV. Microsoft takes over DATAllegro.

It looks like my blog entries about DATAllegro (such as this piece about DATAllegro and magic 4GFC throughput) are going to start to sound a wee bit different:
Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Posted 24 July 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Adding New Facts and Dimensions to the BI Apps Data Warehouse

I’ve been working with Informatica 8.1.1, the Oracle BI Applications and the DAC (Data Warehouse Administration) for a while now, and over this time I’ve tried to post a few techniques I’ve picked up whilst putting the tools through their paces. I’m going to round up the current set of postings now with one on [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

I like California

This week I’m in California for some business meetings and for pleasure.I’m staying this time in the Westlake Village Inn, very different from the Hyatt I stayed in last time. The different houses, the pool, fitness room, tennis and golf courts and the…

Posted 24 July 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

IOUG RAC Attack! Register Now!

The Oracle RAC SIG and the IOUG are co-sponsoring the IOUG “RAC Attack” event and if you haven’t yet heard about it, you might want to check it out. The event runs for 2 days, August 4-5, in downtown Chicago and will bring together some excellent presenters as well as the opportunity for hands-on experiences [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Knol…

Looks like Google’s “Wikipedia Killer” called Knol has arrived. Check out this announcement.
I’ve created a bio and a Knol called Oracle. I expect lots official people will want to collaborate on that one.
Cheers
Tim…

Posted 24 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Bind Capture

If you’ve ever looked at view v$sql_bind_capture, you’ve probably seen that (at least in 10.2) it allows you to see the actual values for bind variables that have been used with an SQL statement.
For a long time I had assumed that this view was capturing the bind values used when the optimizer peeked at the variables [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

How OraNA.info Aggregates Blogs.Oracle.com

On July 1st, blogs.oracle.com was migrated to a new platform, Six Apart’s Movable Type Enterprise on top of Oracle Content DB. The list of Oracle related blogs (authored by Oracle employees and non-employees) has moved to this page on the Oracle Wiki. Only Oracle employees are eligible to host blogs on blogs.oracle.com.

Along with the migration [...]

Posted 24 July 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °