The conference finished yesterday at about midday, so I went into town with Chris Muir and Marcel Kratochvil to check out the aquarium. I managed not to get sunburnt this time. Later we met up for some food and basically chilled out. I’ve added some more photos here.
I leave for San Francisco airport in a [...]
I decided fairly early on that ODTUG would be an APEX conference for me. I’m trying to go to as many APEX talks as possible as a fact-finding exercise.
I’m a DBA and PL/SQL developer, so I don’t have a foot in either the APEX or ADF camp. I was expecting this conference to help me [...]
I spent the day in the Oracle ACE director’s briefing at the Oracle head office in Redwood Shores. We had to sign none disclosure agreements, so I can’t tell you all the “secrets” we were told.
Don’t tell anyone I said anything, but Oracle are releasing a games console. It looks amazing and will blow the [...]
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It’s that time again where I check to see if Oracle installs on the latest version of Fedora. The result once again is yes, it does. The main website has the links to the articles. I would add links here only the browser on this internet cafe machine doesn’t support cut & pates.
When [...]
I can’t remember where I first heard the phrase “Compulsive Tuning Disorder”, but it was mentioned again at ORCAN recently. I guess my approach to the database is almost the opposite of that. Maybe “Compulsive Non-Tuning Disorder”.
When you’re reading the blog posts on the internet you could be forgiven for thinking that every Oracle database [...]
Swingbench is a pretty useful load generator and I can’t say I really had any issue with version 2.2, but this morning I downloaded the 2.3 candidate and it has a lot of neat new features. Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference, like now it can take AWR snapshots before and [...]
I get a number of questions from developers who are used to working with SQL Server, but have recently moved to Oracle. The top 2 issues are:
Lack of AutoNumber/Identity columns in Oracle (solution).
How to return recordsets from stored procedures (solution).
Recently I had a question about how you return the value assigned by a sequence during [...]
In my last post I mentioned the technical difficulties I was facing before the OUGF conference in Helsinki. I managed to get my demos working again and got the laptop fully charged, so I was ready for the conference to start…
I was one of the first speakers up on the Round Table track, so I [...]
OK. I’m in Helsinki. My laptop is behaving eratically and my power supply is broken. I’ve borrowed one off the reception and I’m desperately trying to come up with some alternatives for tomorrow. There is always a chance it will all work fine, but just in case I want a couple of fallbacks, including several [...]
Day 1 started with a bit of a shock. My demo VM would start. It was completely wasted, so I sat through 2 Steve Feuerstein talks trying to fix it. Fortunately I had a backup of the VM, so eventually I gave up and switched to the backup. It was a little old, but good [...]