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Daily Archives Sunday, October 2008

Useful blog

Browsing around over the weeend, I came across this blog.
I didn’t spend much time reading through the material, but at first sight I got the impression that a number of the articles might be useful to people who were starting to experiment with RAC systems  and could do with some step by step guidance when [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

I know Nothing About Data Warehouse Appliances and Now, So Won’t You - Part V. Why GreenPlum is Better Than Oracle Exadata Storage Server.

In my recent blog post Oracle Exadata Storage Server. Part I., a reader asked:
I wonder if there will be another Appliances with other hardware vendors such as Dell/EMC or SUN?
I’m fairly certain the reader wondered whether the Oracle Exadata Storage Server would be made available on platforms other than HP. However, another reader presumed the [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Let’s Pretend

Here’s a summary of a question that appeared on the Oracle Forum some time ago:
I had been seeing frequent log file switching (resulting in “checkpoint not complete” reports) at night when some export dumps have to occur simultaneously, so I increased my redo log file sizes from 5MB to 10MB.
I now have a user who [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 † Jonathan Lewis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Quick Tip: Oracle11g function result cache

I just realized it’s been a little while since I offered some PL/SQL thoughts on this blog. Sorry, the election campaign is twisting around my priorities. So how about if I share with you what I believe is far and away the most important new feature f…

Posted 05 October 2008 † Steven Feuerstein § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Reminder - UKOUG BIRT SIG meeting

… is on Wednesday October 8th. Mark will be speaking and I will be there with the Rittman Mead  stand, so if you are at the meeting just come up and say “hello”.
This is the last BIRT SIG meeting of the year, but BI is, of course, going to be big part a big [...]

Posted 05 October 2008 † Peter Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °