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Daily Archives Wednesday, September 2008

Oracle Enters the DW Appliance and Storage Server Market

So, the mystery “X” product was a database / data warehouse appliance, using HP Hardware and a custom storage server that takes predicates provided by the database and filters the data locally, returning just the results / columns back to the database rather than whole blocks of data. Oracle enters the data warehouse appliance market, [...]

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

OOW08 - Larry announces Oracle hardware - APEX will run fast

The keynote just finished. Larry Ellison announced Oracle is also providing hardware together with HP. If you want the worlds fastest machine for the Oracle database you should buy Exadata!If you think about it… some say that APEX can’t scale (which …

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

Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software. Part I.

Brute Force with Brains.
Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software building blocks:

Intelligent Storage. Ship less data due to query intelligence in the storage.
Bigger Pipes. Infiniband with Remote Direct Memory Access. 5x Faster than Fibre Channel.
More Pipes. Scalable, redundant I/O Fabric.

Yes, it’s called Oracle Exadata Storage Server and it really was worth the wait. I know it is [...]

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

Live Blogging from the Larry Ellison Keynote, OOW 2008

I’m currently sitting in the audience waiting for the Larry Ellison keynote at Oracle Open World 2008. It’s just past 2pm and the crowds are coming in now. I’m not sure whether we’ll have to sit through the vendor keynotes first, if so it’ll be about an hour or so before Larry comes on, and [...]

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

OOW08 - APEX Charts, Meetings, Oracle Forms conversion, Dinner

On Monday at 11.30 I gave my presentation about Charting in Oracle Application Express.I tried to build things up, so beginner and more advanced users would learn something. The room was pretty full, around 70 people I think. I talked why you would lik…

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

OOW08 - Waiting for Larry

I’m currently in the keynote session at Oracle Open World. 30 minutes to go before Larry Ellison will come and do a big announcement ;-)This time I’ve a good seat… people are still coming in…Didn’t have the time yet to finish the blog posts of the …

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

A Miracle Masterclass …

…. in promotion.

Not for Miracle the bland pen, or notebook or bouncy ball. Oh, no, tattoos are the future! (Thanks to Tim Hall for modelling it)

Posted 24 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

MSAD/OID/EUS/DB integration session room change, Weds at noon

My session scheduled for Wednesday at noon titled “Integrating Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Internet Directory with Database Logins: Enterprise User Security” (S300044) has been moved to a larger room. It will now be in Marriott Salon 8, so if you were on the waiting list (there were quite a few of you!), you shouldn’t [...]

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

Hold on a Minute!

If Mogens, Anjo and Cary are in the OTN lounge, meeting their (cough) fans, who the hell is looking after The Cave?!

Posted 24 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

RAC in the Box - Data with a side of fries

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology

Here are a couple of links to Oracle’s new Database Machine, the Oracle Exadata Storage Server and press release which describes th

Posted 24 September 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °