Daily Archives Tuesday, October 2008

Advert - Tom Kyte

I’ve just been sent an email by Oracle University to tell me that Tom Kyte will be in Europe for three events over the next few months. If you can get a chance to go, it’s likely to be one of the best bits of Oracle education you could get. The dates are:
Denmark: 4th - [...]

ODTUG09 - Call for APEX Papers

Recovered from the last ODTUG? Well, time to start thinking about the next one ;)
At ODTUG2009, for the first time there will be a seperate APEX Track (anyone doubting the future/success/growth of APEX should hopefully see how positive this is). All of the APEX sessions will hopefully be held in the same room (or couple [...]

APEX @ ODTUG 2009

In the last years the number of APEX presentations at ODTUG have grown every year. For 2009 we plan to have even more! The ODTUG board asked John Scott, Scott Spendolini, Patrick Wolf and myself to be responsible for the Application Express Track conte…

Transportable tablespaces and ROWID uniqueness

I recently saw a fellow OakTable member mentioning a section in Oracle documentation where it’s said that:
“When a database contains tablespaces that have been plugged in (from other databases), the ROWIDs in that database are no longer unique. A ROWID is guaranteed unique only within a table.”
It’s a well known fact that the old Oracle7 [...]

NZOUG Day 1…

NZOUG Day 1 seemed to go pretty well. My talk went OK, and the guys from Quest gave me some more Toads to shoot out into the audience. In the evening we all went out for a Skyrides and Luge trip. The Luge rides were cool, but I nearly fell out at one point.
I managed [...]