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Oracle Exadata Storage unvailed

A few days ago Larry Ellison has unvailed Oracle Exadata Storage, a family of software and hardware products including a hardware product which has been designed specially for large Data Warehouses in cooperation with HP, HP Oracle Database Machine.

The Database Machine runs Oracle Database 11g and Real Application Clusters, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and includes all [...]

يا قاهرة عملة اي؟

A few days ago I arrived in Cairo again.
I will deliver a series of 11g Administration Courses for Oracle again.
One day after I arrived the there was a a big fire which burned down the house of the consultative councel completely. 
I was lucky enough to have my new camera with me to take some exciting shots.
 
It [...]

Article on HOW TO Handle Block Corruption in Oracle 11g published

Today I have reveived a parcel from IOUG containing five copies of the current SELECT magazine.

Plus a sweater with the SELECT Journal Contributer logo:

Additionally I was granted a one year free membership for Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) for my article on DETECTING AND REPAIRING CORRUPT BLOCKS IN ORACLE DATABASE 11g WITH THE DATA RECOVERY ADVISER [...]

I hate wordpress!!!

They have changed the editor again and I am not able to insert a photo here
because a menu window is stuck at the botton of my screen and I cannot reach the insert button.
Wordpress is a drag!
I anybody knows a WAY TO MIGRATE BACK TO BLOGGER
it would be highly appreciated if you could let me [...]

100′000 hits on sysdba.wordpress.com

Today my blog has reached to the 100′000 hits landmark.
I am very happy that this has become such a successfull forum here.
Thanks for reading
I’ll keep on posting in the future!
 

forums.oracle.com is down

Oracle seems to have massive problems with the forums on OTN.
The site is down since quite a while now.
=;-(

Free Oracle Clusterware for Linux Support Customers

Oracle Technology Network announces that “Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels now can download and deploy Oracle Clusterware at no additional license fee or support cost.”
   Oracle Unbreakable Linux.
 Before this the clusterware needed at least one Standard Edition License.
Now you can download the clusterware and use it as an extension of your [...]

Speaking at Swiss Oracle Usergroup

Today I have delivered two presentation @ the
 yearly conference of the Swiss Oracle Usergroup.
The topics were :
- Real Application Testing with Oracle 11g
     REPLAY DATABASE and
     SQL PERFORMANCE ADVISOR
- SQL Plan Management and Automatic SQL Tuning in 11g
I have used my new courseware which
I have produced in the last few weeks for 11g New Features.
I offer [...]

Teaching Oracle Support and Trainers

At the moment I am in Cairo delivering a number of 11g New Features trainings.
I have a completely packed class with 21 students.
 Most of the students are Oracle Trainers, Support Agents and Consultants.

Visiting Muhammad Ali

After arriving in Cairo I immediately went to see if the my friend Muhammd Ali is still in living in his place as before 13 years.  I had been living in his place for a while in the 90s.
 Muhammad is an internationally recognized artist and has been painting since more than 25 years now. He had [...]