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Daily Archives Thursday, November 2008

Google Does and Knows a Lot

It’s pretty hard to keep up with all the stuff Google does. There are several blogs I know of whose only purpose in life is to cover Google.
Anyway, a couple noteworthy Google announcements recently caught my attention. So, I figured I share them and collect your thoughts.
Google Flu Trends
Google.org announced Google Flu Trends recently, which [...]

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

Shizzow Expands Beyond the Rose City

I’ve mentioned Portland-based Shizzow a few times in the past in posts about geo-aware services and networking.
Shizzow has been open to Portlanders only until this week, but Tuesday they added the Bay Area. And now today, Seattle is also supported.
Full disclosure: I know all the principles that make up the little Shizzow operation. They’re all [...]

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

Preprocessing Input Files and 11.1.0.7 External Tables

Just a quick note to point to Greg Rahn’s posting on External Table Preprocessors in Oracle 11g 11.1.07. Prior to 11.1.0.7, if a file that you were going to use via an external table needed uncompressing, you had to do the task prior to reading it using the external table, potentially ending up with an [...]

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

Oracle OLAP Supports MDX (Sort Of…)

Dan Vlamis broke the news yesterday that Simba Technologies will be showing off their “Native Microsoft Excel 2007 Connectivity for Oracle OLAP” solution at the upcoming BIWA SIG in December. From looking at Dan’s blog posting and the Simba Technologies press release, the product uses an MDX 2005 to Oracle OLAP bridge that the company [...]

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

Learn SQL - The Guide to DML

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
My SQL book is now available for print. You can see it on my CreateSpace e-store. The book is SQL DML - SQL Starter Series Book 1. This is a book for beginners. It takes someone step by step through TC…

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

has your company got a Community Manager ?

My support for the Disqus commenting system used on this blog is well documented. I have also had great support whenever I have had minor issues with a service I paid precisely nothing for.

Disqus are a small company with less than 10 employees….

Posted 20 November 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Book Survey From Packt - Get 40% Off EBooks

Packt is a publishing company. I will be reviewing one of their books here in the near future. They are doing a survey and anyone who responds can get 40% off any ebook in their inventory. I just wanted to pass this along. The survey is only 9 quest…

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