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Daily Archives Thursday, November 2008

C. J. Date at Symposium 2009

I’m excited to announce that we have just arranged for Chris Date to speak at the upcoming Hotsos Symposium (hosted by our friends at Hotsos, 9–12 March 2009 near DFW Airport). Karen Morton just closed the deal with Chris a few minutes ago: he will d…

Posted 06 November 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Marketing Material is Not Educational, at Least it is Non-Technical as Well.

This is just a quick blog post to shamelessly promote my appearance at the Puget Sound Oracle User Group meeting on November 18, 2008. I haven’t visited PSOUG for a few years so I’m looking forward to it. I have a 3-hour time slot to present. I read the email blast sent by Dan Morgan [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Defrag Debrief: Tuesday

I had planned to do the Defrag recap in a single post, but it got really long. I guess my memory isn’t totally shot yet. So, this is part two of my Defrag recap. Part one is here, if you’re a glutton.
Tuesday
Tuesday was shorter for both Paul and me, as we had planes to catch.
After [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Obama’s Change

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Just to update you about my post on juries and elections from a few days ago, I was chosen in a group to be questioned for a trial. They never asked me any questions and I wasn’t chosen. It was a batte…

Posted 06 November 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Why AWS for Oracle (and anything else)?

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Why Use Amazon Web Services

The real value of a cloud computing initiative is primarily an economic one. It is much cheaper to get up and running on someone else’s hardware than it is to buy your own….

Posted 06 November 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Bitmap Indexes Redux

I was running a data warehousing training event for a client recently, and in one of the sessions we looked at bitmap indexes and bitmap join indexes. Whilst the session went OK I remember thinking to myself at the end, “you know what, there’s a fair bit about bitmap indexes I’m not too clear on”, [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Defrag Debrief: Monday

Looks like I got out of Denver right before a cold front came through, dropping the temperature significantly. Not that the weather is all that great here in Portland.
So, Paul and I were at Defrag Monday and Tuesday, as was Bob, who has done a good job of recapping in near real time.
Overall, I enjoyed [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °