Skip to content





Daily Archives Tuesday, October 2008

My Open World 2008 slides posted

I’ve been enjoying reading everyone’s OOW08 summaries and thoughts lately, which reminded me that I hadn’t posted the slides that I promised to put up. Unlike some presentations, my slides aren’t usually of too much use without the narrative that I spew in the session. That’s mostly because I try to make slides that have [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Location, location, location. It’s all about location..

While Jake is busy working on his super secret project he’s asked me to fill the rambling spot for him.  Hopefully, I can make this a regular place to spout my technolutionary thoughts.
In a previous life I did a lot of work with Oracle’s Location and Spatial products.  There really is nothing like putting a [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † Matt Topper § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

AUSOUG Perth…

The AUSOUG Perth conference finished a few hours ago. It’s a really good size event, about 400 people, which is big enough to feel busy, but small enough to feel personal. I met a bunch of familiar faces and many new ones.
The best speaker prize went to Connor McDonald. If you get the chance, check [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rottnest…

I took a trip out to Rottnest Island a couple of days ago. The beaches look tropical, but the center of the island is a mix of scrub land and unusual salty lakes. It’s pretty cool.

From 2008_Perth

Here’s another shot…

From 2008_Perth

The island was named Rottnest (Rat’s Nest) because William de Vlaming thought the native Quokkas were [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

4 Useful Links for 2008-10-07

Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…

Posted 07 October 2008 † Eddie Awad § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Exadata Storage Server: A Black Box with No Statistics.

A question came in about whether it is possible to measure how much data is filtered out when running a query serviced by a Smart Scan in the Exadata Storage Server grid. The following is the long answer.
An Example of SQL Offload Processing Effectiveness Accounting
I’d like to answer this question by taking real information from [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °