I came across a rather annoying little bug yesterday… One of the guys was trying to compile an Oracle Form on the app server and got this message. *** ASSERT at file pdw1.c, line 4061 PSDGON missing. Can’t get object number Source Location = XNSPC0P99_2013_06_12_17_44_38__AB[71, 7] Uncle Google pointed me in the direction of this MOS [...]
The DBA role can sometimes feel like a mix of detective, crime writer and DBA all thrown together. What do I mean by that? When you hit some problems you have to play detective, trying to find clues to what is going on. Once you’ve started to gather clues, you have to play crime writer [...]
The Oracle ACE program recently invited members to a teleconference session about the upcoming launch of Java 7 EE. Arun Gupta took us through a preview of the information that will be available to everyone as part of the launch. If you are interested in getting the low down on this new release, you can [...]
I was a little bit rubbish and forgot to get photos of the recent BGOUG event. Fortunately, the conference photos have arrived. You can check them out here. There are a number of photos of an old fat guy that looks a little like me. I don’t remember meeting him though. Weird… I think he needs [...]
We’ve had a couple of short lived, but very inconvenient I/O latency issues recently. I’ve been using the awesome Latency Heat Map Visualization by Luca Canali as one of the tools to investigate this. I’m guessing this isn’t the type of I/O latency heat map most people would want to see from a production system. [...]
How do you want to start the day? I’m guessing it’s not to be called out to the front of the room by a speaker and used as a guinea pig, while they ask you trick questions to make you look stupid. Tom Kyte, you will pay. Oh yes! You will pay!!! The sessions I attended [...]
So Day 1 (part 2) didn’t go to plan because I forgot to take my camera or my phone to the party. Suffice to say, lots of food, lots of drink (for those that do) and most importantly lots of dancing. Yes, I once again murdered the traditional dances of Bulgaria, but it’s the takling [...]
Last night we all got together to eat some food and chat. Julian Dontcheff is practically a savant where Bulgarian Poetry, World Cup match results and random Oracle facts are concerned. Although Christian Antognini was pretty impressive on the random Oracle facts too. I didn’t have any presentations today, so I got to sit and [...]
It’s stupid o’clock in the morning and I’m waiting for my taxi to arrive. Considering how close Bulgaria is, it takes me a very long time to get there. I am a mix of excited and nervous. This is my first conference this year, so all the usual insecurities are in full effect, from fear [...]
On Thursday I’ll be flying out to Bulgaria for BGOUG Spring 2013. It’s been about 18 months since I’ve visited the people over there, so I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in. This will be my first conference of the year, so I’m feeling a little nervous at the moment. I’m sure the [...]