Daily Archives Wednesday, October 2008

While we’re talking about design…

I’m a code geek that likes to tinker with design and illustration.  My weapon of choice is Xara Xtreme.  Most people in this arena choose Adobe Illustrator, but Xara works for me.  It’s also faster, easier to use, lighter and cheaper.  The only drawback is that it’s Windoze-ware only.  Actually, there is a Linux version [...]

Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Frequently Asked Questions. Part III.

This is installment number three in my series on Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine frequently asked questions. I recommend you also visit:
Exadata Storage Server Frequently Asked Questions Part I.
Exadata Storage Server Frequently Asked Questions Part II.
I’m mostly cutting and pasting questions from the comment threads of my blog posts about Exadata [...]

Windows and SQL Server in the Cloud

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Well, that didn’t take very long. Not a week after Oracle announces they have databases running under AWS, Microsoft and Amazon announce the same thing for SQL Server. Can DB2 be far behind?
What’s eve…

Windows and SQL Server in the Cloud

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Well, that didn’t take very long. Not a week after Oracle announces they have databases running under AWS, Microsoft and Amazon announce the same thing for SQL Server. Can DB2 be far behind?
What’s eve…

Analysing Statspack (10)

[Back to part 9]
The following question appeared some time ago on the Oracle Forum:

Event Waits Time(s) Avg Wait(ms) % Total Call Time Wait Class
CPU time [...]

Adventures in Bad Design

I am a bit of a closet designer. No I don’t have the funky glasses, but I appreciate great design and get a good laugh at poor design. Sometimes I run across designs that I just don’t understand. Here are two of my recent gems:
The first is this novel coffee mug from [...]

OpenWorld Pictures…

I didn’t really take many photos in San Francisco, but here’s two shots I thought were worth posting…
First the DeLorian. Why didn’t Larry pack the Database Machine into one of these?

From OpenWorld

Next, a photo taken on Friday morning, after the conference was over. Believe it ot not, this was the road with the big marquee. [...]

Whale watching in Freemantle…

I went whale watching in Freemantle today. I took a boat trip down the swan river from Perth to Freemantle, then got on a bigger boat and went out to sea. The water was really choppy, so about 25% of the people were really ill and many others were close. I haven’t found my land [...]

BlogRoll

You may have noticed that I keep my blogroll quite short - I have a few names on there more or less permanently, and have a few “guest” slots that I change from time to time.
At present, Cary Millsap isn’t on the list - though he has been one of the “guest” names in the [...]

Vi Rules!

… and you know it.  I’m sure we have enough geeky readers here that know what I’m talking about.  For those that don’t (you suck) — Vi, simply put, is the best damn text editor ever created.
A couple of weeks ago a poll was started on OraTweet regarding Vi vs. Emacs:

How could there even be [...]