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Daily Archives Thursday, October 2008

Thoughts on the OpenWorld Blogger Program?

Now that the dust has fully settled on OpenWorld 2008, it’s probably time to start planning next year’s iteration.
Justin and I spoke recently with the people who manage the Blogger Program to debrief about the event, how the program was received and ways to improve it for next year.
If you read that sentence carefully, you [...]

Posted 16 October 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Exadata Storage Server: Beaten by FLASH SSD and Worthless for OLTP.

I’ve never met Mike Ault, but some friends of mine, who are fellow OakTable Network members, say he’s a great guy and I believe them. Mike works at Texas Memory Systems and I know some of those guys as well (Hi Woody, Jamon). Pleasantries aside, I have to call out some of the content Mike [...]

Posted 16 October 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

The Complicator’s Gloves

Thanks to Chet “for great” Justice, a.k.a. ORACLENERD, for passing along this gem from the Daily WTF.
Alex Papadimoulis lists three types of developers attacking good software development, the Amateurs, the Career Amateurs and the Complicators.
The Complicators are the focus of the post; I love the description:
They’ve acquired a sort of sixth-sense: the ability to find [...]

Posted 16 October 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Stored outlines

Note:
Performance Tuning Guide
Stored outlines will be desupported in a future release in favor of SQL plan management. In Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), stored outlines continue to function as in past releases. However, Oracle strongly recommends that you use SQL plan management for new applications. SQL plan management creates SQL plan baselines, which offer [...]

Posted 16 October 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °