I was all ready to crank out a heavy work post when this item in my Reader caught my eye.
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac?
I love this type of title because it captures attention by being potentially controversial, and of course, it references Apple. Good tech news writing always drives traffic through [...]
When someone asks you to take a quick look into database performance and for whatever reason you can’t run your usual scripts or performance tools on there, ), then what query would you run first?
Yeah sometimes I’ve been not allowed to run custom scripts nor even touch the keyboard due security policies in effect.
Whenever you’re [...]
So my wife Anette and I are on our way home from Tim’s wedding.We flew British Airways both ways. In Copenhagen I told a lady at the BA check-in counter that I might have discovered a way for terrorists to put bombs on planes without being on the plane…
As one of the organizers of the IOUG RAC Attack! event, I may have a slightly partial viewpoint, but I think the event overall went very well. The hands-on lab was especially popular and I think participants in the hands-on lab all got to learn at least a few new things. If you’ve been to [...]
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
I think I have once again run into one of the most misunderstood issues facing Oracle shops. We run RAC in an SE environment and were thinking about setting up a new development (with RAC) configuration. Do we need to purchase a license to develop and test in this environment? The short answer is that in most cases, yes, we must purchase a license.</p
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
I think I have once again run into one of the most misunderstood issues facing Oracle shops. We run RAC in an SE environment and were thinking about setting up a new development (with RAC) configuration. Do we need to purchase a license to develop and test in this environment? The short answer is that in most cases, yes, we must purchase a license.</p
I knew Oracle had bought BEA, so I knew they had acquired the WebLogic stuff, but I can’t remember reading that they had practically scrapped their own Application Servers in favor of it. The last I read about it was this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/oracle_bea_roadmap/
Yet a quick visit to the Oracle websites makes it look pretty clear that WebLogic [...]
Long time no post!
Sorry folks: been busy with a lot at work and at home.
It’s Winter outdoor sports season here so all spare time is spent ferrying kids from venue to venue.
Anyways: attended a recent Oracle seminar on high availability.
Good stuff. And for once, we didn’t get another “injection” of “Larry Ellison did or said this or that or the other”:
Hallelujah!!!
Interesting also to
The last weeks I’ve been doing some interesting things.Normally I’m asked to train or coach people when they already have some experience in the IT-field, or know some things about Oracle SQL, PLSQL and APEX. Or I need to train youngsters who already k…
In case you missed the news, yet another laptop with unencrypted Personally Identifiable Information (PII) was lost (though this one was found again, news story here). This type of story is in the news all too often. If you think I’m overreacting, take a look at this Chronology of Data Breaches. You might even look for your organization or organizations that [...]