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Daily Archives Monday, October 2008

WhereCamp PDX Roundup

This weekend was WhereCamp PDX here in Portland. WhereCamp is another Bay Area-born unconference imported here by the great folks at Legion of Tech
As you can probably guess, WhereCamp focuses on geo-geeking. It began in 2007 as a way to extend and build on conversations and topics presented at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference.
There’s no time [...]

Posted 20 October 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Pessimistic Feelings About New Technology. Oracle Exadata Storage Server - A JBOD That Can Swamp A Single Server.

In my recent blog entry entitled “Oracle Exadata Storage Server. No Magic in an Imperfect World. Excellent Tools and Really Fast I/O Though“, I concluded with a reference to some anti-Exadata comments made by EMC’s Chuck Hollis in his blog entry entitled “Oracle Does Hardware.” I directed my readers to that blog post by [...]

Posted 20 October 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Partitioning For Developers, Part 2

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
This continues the post begun a few days ago. I will wrap this up with a part 3 that I will post in a few days.
Partition Types
Oracle offers 6 major types of partitions and a set of composite partitio…

Posted 20 October 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Partitioning For Developers, Part 2

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
This continues the post begun a few days ago. I will wrap this up with a part 3 that I will post in a few days.
Partition Types
Oracle offers 6 major types of partitions and a set of composite partitio…

Posted 20 October 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rittman Mead Win the UKOUG BI Partner of the Year Award, 2008

I’m pleased to announce that, at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards last week in London, Rittman Mead Consulting won the Business Intelligence Partner of the Year category. Thank you, all the UKOUG members that voted for us, and for our customers and partners that have worked with us since Jon and I founded [...]

Posted 20 October 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Rotorua…

I’m currently at the Rotorua conference, so this will be a quick post. I had a quick look round yesterday.
Lake Rotorua.

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Mud Pool.

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Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake).

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Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake).

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Lake Tarawera…

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Are you spotting a pattern? Lots of water and lots of green.

Posted 20 October 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °