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Daily Archives Monday, September 2008

Why Stickers are My New Business Card

With the memory of OpenWorld fading, I wanted to riff on one thing I noticed and found interesting last week.
Stickers, or rather the lack of them.
Rich and and I whipped up a last-minute plan to produce some stickers right before OpenWorld, and many of you were the beneficiaries last week. I added the AppsLab sticker [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW 2008 Presentations

I noticed via H.Tonguç Yılmaz’s blog that some of the presentation slides have started to appear.

1) Go to http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/login.jsp

2) Username/Password is cboracle/oraclec6 (Updated later - actually, maybe this doesn’t work for unregistered attendees yet)

3) Search for sessions

4) Click link in right hand column where the presentation exists

5) You might be prompted for the same username/password again

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rodney Update

Thanks to Frits Hoogland, here are some better pictures of the appreciation event.

See, it was me who did all the hard work really! Not really, you can see Marco is standing in another queue, waiting to help.

You can almost imagine this bear’s thoughts. ‘Mmmm, so this is where my future lies, with a drunken bum …. What was your name? Mark? Any chance I could come back to your place instead?’

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Fleece Update

To those who have been badgering me about this for the best part of a week (they know who they are), it’s time for more information about this year’s Oracle ACE OOW gift.

It’s not right.

First of all, it’s sophisticated black. What was wrong with emergency flare red?

Second, it’s not even a fleece but a Stormtech waterproof! All of the chaps at work will have to revise their fleece jokes and they just won’t sound right any more. In fact, one or two of the cyclists were worryingly interested in it, but there ain’t no Oracle ACEs round there, so they’d have to get busy with a thread unpicker.

Third, have you seen how small that ACE symbol is? How on earth are snipers or stone-throwers supposed to aim at that?

I suppose I’ve only got myself to blame after taking the mickey out of last year’s fleece, but I’m starting to miss it now. I’m not sure the rest of Edinburgh will, though.

Still, this version is much more sober than the version that the true technorati, the ACE Directors, get. If you check out Mogens’ in this blog entry, you’ll see they have a dinky little crown on their ACE Symbol. *That’s* more like it! Much more embarassing!

As usual, I’m only kidding. Justin, Vikki, Emily and all those at OTN know what I’m like and I do appreciate all the organisation they put into everything. The OTN lounge and ACE dinner are two of the better features of OOW (although I hope the latter might be a bit more stand-up-and-mingle in future years).

Oh, and finally, the DUDE was showing disdain for the ACE program to Marco and I prior to the conference because of my red fleece. He’s a black-only guy. We tried to explain to him how cool the fleece that you are sent is so, just for the DUDE …

In your dreams, man!

P.S. My other half *hates* me making that gesture when I’m having my photo taken (that’s what it’s for - to discourage photograhpers) but she wasn’t there, so it was the ideal opportunity.

Posted 29 September 2008 † Doug Burns § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Index Analysis 2

Shortly after I published the previous post, I received an email from an old client who reminded me of a problem he had had with empty index blocks, the solution we had used (which was a coalesce) and an update on how things had changed in the latest releases of Oracle.
Strangely, I was sure I [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Exadata Server Related Web News Media and Blog Errata. Part I.

This is just a quick blog entry to correct some minor (and some not-so-minor) errors I’ve stumbled upon in blog and Web news media.
Exadata Storage Server Gross Capacity
In his recent Computerworld article, Eric Lai was trying to put some flesh on the bones as it were. It is a good article, but a few bits [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Announcing : Oracle BI Training Days, London October 22nd - 24th 2008

Something that we’ve been working on in the background recently, and are now able to announce, are the first of our Oracle BI Training Days running in London from October 22nd to the 24th, 2008. If you’re a developer using Oracle’s latest BI tools and you’re looking to take a step up in terms of [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Community Update

The social network for Oracle people OracleCommunity.net was launched on January 31, 2008. Since then, it has had a tremendous growth. We went from 1 to 2,445+ members in 8 months. Existing features have been enhanced and new features have been added. Features like chat, events and the iPhone version did not even exist when [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Family and Friends post: Day 1 in Perth…

Hello family and friends…
The flight to perth took a little longer than the planned 7 hours and 45 minutes. The last 2 hours were really tough. The lack of sleep meant I was really irritable. Everything was aggrivating my skin and my legs felt really stiff and bloated. I got into the hotel at about [...]

Posted 29 September 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °