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Daily Archives Thursday, October 2008

Why Flickr Rules, Part 2

Wow, after a slew of posts from other people, it’s back to just me.
I’ve documented my affection for Flickr in the past. Recently, Rich put me on to another reason to love Flickr.
Groups.
While I was at OpenWorld, I was chatting with Rich about a little iPhone hobby I have. I like to take pictures of [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Exadata Storage Server FAQ - Part IV. A Closer Look at Storage Filtration and Column Projection.

This is installment number two in my series on Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine frequently asked questions. I recommend you also visit:
Oracle Exadata Storage Server Frequently Asked Questions Part I.
Oracle Exadata Storage Server Frequently Asked Questions Part II.
Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Frequently Asked Questions. Part III.
I’m mostly cutting and pasting questions from [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX SIG on Linkedin

I realize I didn’t blog about it yet, but some months ago I created also an APEX SIG group on Linkedin. There are currently over 60 members.Linkedin is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals from around the world. Already a…

Posted 02 October 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Burleson BS 2

It’s been over a year now since Don Burleson published his “biased test cases” article. He removed it from his website after I had pointed out that his behaviour was likely to damage his reputation more than it would damage mine - at which point I deleted all the associated comments from my blog. Sadly, [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Digging into the Oracle BI Server Query Log File

As a follow-up to the posting I did last week on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition performance tuning, I thought I’d take a closer look a the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, the “virtual database engine” that ships with Oracle BI EE. For some time now I’ve been looking to see if [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Upgrades

I posted a summary of page hits a little while ago when the WordPress statistics hit 750,000 page views, and commented at the time that a couple of the most popular items seemed to be related to the types of issue you get when you upgrade to 10g.
Well, it occurred to me this morning to [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

XMLDB

I don’t really have anything to do with XMLDB (beyond the fact that it’s an application built in an Oracle database, of course, and subject to tuning and bugs just like any other application), so it was nice to get an email last night from Marco Gralike telling me that the next release of XMLDB [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

20% of My iPhone Apps Are Worthless

Our guest blogger, Matt Topper, is a friend of the Lab, an ex-Oracle Ace, turned Oracle employee who always has something to say. He’s currently running the identity management team for Oracle’s National Security group, playing with Collok in his free time to fix the conference experience.
The other day Eddie tweeted that he was [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † matt.topper § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °